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" The sweetest of all sounds is praise. "

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" Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. "

" I think people get confused about who Merlin is. It's not his age that makes him: it's wisdom, and wisdom is not necessarily linked to age. Definitely not in the same way in the world of 'Once Upon a Time.' "

" The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. "

" Slow and steady wins the race. "

" I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done. "

Hillary Clinton

" I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God. "

" Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. "

" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Wisdom is found only in truth. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. "

Johann Georg Hamann

" Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. "

Igor Stravinsky

" The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. "

William O. Douglas

" There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together. "

Alexandra Petri

" It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. "

William Ralph Inge

" The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. "

Julian Casablancas

" I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. "

" Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

" You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary. "

Tatiana Maslany

" How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. "

" By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code. "

" The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. "

" A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. "

" We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding. "

" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson