Sages/people

Famous quotes containing the words sages and/or people:

“All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius—a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)