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| It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent | | Jean de la Bruyere | |
| It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either. | | Mark Twain | |
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| It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf | | Walter Lippmann | |
| It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. | | Sigmund Freud | |
| Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. | | Buddha | |
| Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. | | Martin H. Fischer | |
| Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. | | Josh Billings | |
| Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. | | William Shakespeare | |
| Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will. | | Bruce Lee | |
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| Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive. | | Jonas Salk | |
| Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them. | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. | | Bruce Lee | |
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| Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. | | Horace | |
