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)

“If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)