Sentence examples for not a sage from inspiring English sources

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World" exhibition includes a marble bust that portrays him with vivid realism: his fleshy neck, thick brow, and chlamys, or military cloak, reveal a man of force and action, not a sage or statesman.

"It's not a sage move on their part," Stover says.

He's not a sage, he's not a Kokiri, he's just a kid.

According to a former Shimer professor: At Shimer, the professor is a facilitator, a guide on the side, not a sage on the stage – encouraging each student to contribute to the intellectual light being kindled in every class.

Shouldn't a sage Wall Streeter know better?

My testosterone levels are higher than they have ever been and there isn't a sage daiquiri in sight.

But when one delves into Golding's other novels, including subtle metaphysical work such as Pincher Martin and Darkness Visible, the idea of the author not as a sage and evolved soul but as a panting teenager is really not all that helpful.

Since Muhammad was, unlike many other religious leaders, not simply a sage or a prophet but a ruler in his own right, this exploitation of his politics is not as great a stretch as some would argue.

Hasidim believe that the spirit of a great sage remains after death, and many Lubavitchers think the rebbe is not only a sage, but also the messiah.

I didn't have a sage stick, but I did have Fantastik.

After all, Sorai reasoned, Confucius had not been fully a sage, at least not in his strictest sense of the term.