"The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God."

"Qui aura esté une fois bien fol ne sera nulle aultre fois bien sage."

"Le sage vit tant qu'il doibt, non pas tent qu'il peut."

"Seven wise men on an old black settle, Seven wise men of the Mermaid Inn, Ringing blades of the one right metal, What is the best that a blade can win?"

"Il est bon de frotter et limer notre cervelle centre celle d'autrui."

"A little too wise they say do ne'er live long."

"The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene."

"Some men never spake a wise word, yet doe wisely; some on the other side doe never a wise deed, and yet speake wisely."

"Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise."

"Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit."

"Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."

"Victrix fortunæ sapientia."

"Away, thou strange justifier of thyself, to be wiser than thou wert, by the event."

"Il est plus aisé d'être sage pour les autres, que pour soi-même."

"Wisdom is justified of her children."

"When swelling buds their od'rous foliage shed, And gently harden into fruit, the wise Spare not the little offsprings, if they grow Redundant."

"Wisdom shall die with you."

"He taketh the wise in their own craftiness."

"The price of wisdom is above rubies."

"Sapere aude."

"Utiliumque sagax rerum et divina futuri."

"Quis nam igitur liber? Sapiens qui sibi imperiosus."

"Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom."

"For never, never, wicked man was wise."

"Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But, wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice."

"In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!"

"Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit."

"He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser (person)."

"The heart is wiser than the intellect."

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

"Great men are not always wise."

"Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit."

"Drop, drop—in our sleep, upon the heart sorrow falls, memory's pain, and to us, though against our very will, even in our own despite, comes wisdom by the awful grace of God."

"Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line."

"Truth does not require your painting, brother; it is itself beauty. Unfold it, and men will be captivated. Take your brush to set off the rainbow, or give a new tinge of splendor to the setting sun, but keep it away from the "Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley.""

"Colonel: In the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander. All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution. The digital society furthers human flaws, and selectively rewards development of convenient half-truths."

"We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff."

"Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance."

"Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it — a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power."

"There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly — it is incredible to other men."

"He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise."

"In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him."

"I am using the truth, Master Wayne. Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day. I'm sorry."

"Truth will ever be unpalatable to those who are determined not to relinquish error."