People
- Sage (Sophos), a Stoic wise person and/or figure
- Rishi, a Hindu seer of Vedic hymns or divine human being
- Spiritual teacher, including teachers of mysticism or clergy or religious leaders
- Wise old man, a kind, wise, paternal figure, often archetypal or stereotypical
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 11:44.
“Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been—what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal—needs to be protected from people.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)