Top Sage Quotes
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
Xun Zi
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
Mason Cooley
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
Xun Zi 
55% of people like this quote
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian
54% of people like this quote
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee
52% of people like this quote
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
50% of people like this quote
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
Mason Cooley
50% of people like this quote
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
J. M. Coetzee
49% of people like this quote
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus
46% of people like this quote