Wisdom

About Wisdom

Wisdom is the fifth studio album by Finnish power metal band Altaria, released on 8 July 2022. It is their first album since their hiatus, final concert, and temporary split throughout the 2010s, also marking the return of bassist Marko Pukkila and vocalist Taage Laiho.

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Contents

Track listing

"Wisdom" – 3:35

"Diablo Rojo" – 5:12

"Without Warning" – 3:18

"Kissed by the Flames" – 4:54

"Power to Heal" – 3:43

"Sometimes" – 4:45

"Victory of Winter" – 4:31

"History of Times to Come (2022)" – 4:51

"Lost in Time" – 4:26

"Crimson Rain" – 8:36

"Kingdom of the Night (2022)" (Japanese edition bonus track) – 3:14

Personnel

Altaria

Taage Laiho – vocals

Juha Pekka Alanen – guitars

Petri Aho – guitars

Marko Pukkila – bass

Tony Smedjebacka – drums

Production

Harley Velasquez – artwork, layout

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Notable quotes

“Prima sapientiae clavis definitur, assidua scilicet seu frequens interrogatio … Dubitando enim ad inquisitionem venimus; inquirendo veritatem percipimus.”
— Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.
“A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much business grow wise.”
— Hillel the Younger Pirkei Avot 2:5
“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
— George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 5 (1906), Ch. 8
“No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.”
— Charles James Fox. See Campbell's Lives of the Lord Chancellors, Volume V, p. 661; also 551. Said also of Webster.
“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.”
— Proverbs, IV. 7
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
— Attributed to Mark Twain in The Reader's Digest (September 1939), p. 22. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989). This has been widely reprinted and attributed to Twain, but has never been found in his works, though various Twain groups and the Twain Papers staff have searched for it.

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