• "After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society." - Eliot Spitzer Tweet
• "The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying." - Norman Douglas Tweet
• "Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying." - Johannes Tauler Tweet
• "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken Tweet
• "Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it." - Hermann Hesse Tweet
• "Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong." - Alastair Campbell Tweet
• "Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." - Confucius Tweet
• "The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it." - Reinhold Niebuhr Tweet
• "Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only." - Samuel Smiles Tweet
• "Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them." - Mo Udall Tweet