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- In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. — Thomas Carlyle
- So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. — Thomas Jefferson
- Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? — Friedrich Nietzsche
- And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. — Plato
- Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Plato
- The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. — Plato