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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

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.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

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.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.