Top Sages Quotes
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
John Heywood
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Maimonides
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
Elizabeth Moon
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
William Cowper
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
Origen
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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
John Heywood 
69% of people like this quote
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Maimonides
54% of people like this quote
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
Elizabeth Moon
52% of people like this quote
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
William Cowper
51% of people like this quote
We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
Origen
50% of people like this quote
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
Shmuel Y. Agnon
48% of people like this quote
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward Gibbon
47% of people like this quote
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams
46% of people like this quote
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
William Wordsworth
43% of people like this quote
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord Byron
41% of people like this quote