How To Use Wisdom In A Sentence

Bacon aside, the condensed force and poignant brevity of whose aphoristic wisdom has no parallel in English, there is no other prosaist who possesses anything like Milton's command over the resources of our language. Milton
Two bus-rides and a walk in the rain later we found the old dairy farm, muttering under our breaths about the wisdom of locating such an establishment way out in the sticks.
Folk wisdom tells of the abundance that follows a freeze. Times, Sunday Times
Received entomological wisdom holds that a ‘prudent’ parasite does not kill its host.
Politeness is not always the sign of wisdom, but the want of it always leaves room for the suspicion of folly.

The Governing Body, in its wisdom, devolved decision making for the trophy's route to its constituent bodies, the counties.
Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. Preface to Shakespeare
But wisdom does not automatically accrue to an individual because he or she lived through certain seminal events.
They must do the chores of life, must gain in strength and wisdom to cope with the hostile time of manhood.
They are the result of centuries of experience and wisdom, tried and tested.
Then we grow elderly, and we have the greater experience and wisdom of a lifetime with which to understand.
Nobody questions the wisdom behind the decision to set up the commission.
She took her mind's wisdom as a way of showing her growing maturity.
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Clarence Darrow
We believe that Jesus Christ, being the wisdom of God and his eternal Son, has put on our flesh, so as to be God and man in one person; man, like unto us, capable of suffering in body and sinon en tant qu'il a ete pur de toute macule. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
While we can credit him for some degree of intellectual honesty in confronting the hypocrisies and irrationalities that govern so much of public life, religious and non-religious, Christopher Hitchens, in the end, could not offer a vision of true humanness because he dwelled in the cynical faculties of the mind without being adequately informed by the positive wisdom of the heart. Kabir Helminski: Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great"
Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is, and hath been still accounted a virgin. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
When we steadfastly dedicate ourselves to the path of mentor and disciple, we can boundlessly manifest the wisdom and power that is inherent in our life.
In an argument that will run and run, he seemed to be inverting the wisdom of a social theorist from a previous age: the message is not only about the medium. Twitter and Facebook cannot change the real world, says Malcolm Gladwell
This spiritual purification may be compared with the purification of natural spirits, which is effected by the chemists, and is called defecation, rectification, castigation, acution, decantation, and sublimation; and wisdom purified may be compared with alcohol, which is a highly rectified spirit. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
The former world champion imparted a few words of wisdom to the young runners.
Where the Sumerian tale presents the deluge as the work of an intemperate overlord whose attitude to humanity is far from benevolent, whose might may not be right, and offers an ethical opposition to him in figure of a merciful intercessor, the Biblical tale ultimately sanctions the genocidal destruction of most of humanity by ascribing it to a God whose wisdom, justice and mercy are presented as unquestionable. Creative Control - Part 4
It's conventional wisdom that many people seeing an intriguing headline share the link with friends before or even instead of actually reading the attached article.
Wisdom appears in contradiction to itself, which is a trick life plays on philosophy of life.
One certainly hopes to gain a little wisdom as one grows older.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. Robert F. Kennedy
Joshua hoped that Malone had learnt wisdom with his advancing years.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking.
As it says in the beginning, -- "Tending babies is an art, and every art is founded on a science of observations; for love is not wisdom, but love must act _according to wisdom_ in order to succeed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
Wisdom and understanding have always been powerful and effective weapons against a poor belief/approach.
However, even the wisdom of a political boss is not infallible, and despite the succulent graces of the barbecue numbers of the ascetic and jeans-clad elder worthies, though fed to repletion, collogued unhappily together among the ox-teams and canvas-hooded wagons on the slope, commenting sourly on the frivolity of the dance. Una Of The Hill Country 1911
They were godlike in their wisdom and compassion.
Wisdom is more precious than wealth.
Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom.
Actually, the prevailing wisdom that iambic pentameter is somehow ideal for relating the rhythms of English speech seems deeply flawed to me. Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. Lao Tzu
The book serves as a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern science.
Perhaps all columnists have to persuade themselves that they count, that they matter, that they are agents of history, whispering words of wisdom into the ear of the history makers.
As with the 2000 election, will you inject your sage Texas wisdom into your 2000 election projections?
The news of your transfer surprised us all. We will miss you, but realize that exciting opportunities and challenges await you. It has been an honor to be your colleague. We have all benefited from your wit and wisdom and wish you every success on your career path.
Pondering the wisdom of basing a key joke on an obscure music reference that most people won't understand, I wander back downstairs to the lounge.
Consultants are too often seen as the source of all wisdom.
Having presided with his president over the first-ever downgrading of the debt his department issues, Mr. Geithner hied to Wroclaw, Poland, to share his wisdom with the assembled European finance ministers, who pointed out that the euro zone is less indebted than the U.S. and not well placed to warn them, as Mr. Geithner did, of the danger of dependence on foreign creditors. Aggregating Conceals Some Important Facts
The news of your transfer surprised us all. We will miss you, but realize that exciting opportunities and challenges await you. It has been an honor to be your colleague. We have all benefited from your wit and wisdom and wish you every success on your career path.
I have run out of " wisdom " to sagely impart to my students.
The wisdom of the retired generals and backbench MPs conjoins.
Its filled with wisdom and wit for the woman who feels like she is always a bridesmaid.
Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
The medical name for wisdom teeth is the third molars.
The dynamism and energy of youth or the understanding and wisdom of maturity? Times, Sunday Times
By the first many a smatterer acquires the reputation of a man of quick parts; by the other many a dunderpate, like the owl, the stupidest of birds, comes to be considered the very type of wisdom. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. First Open Thread-- What's on your mind? Log in and add your comments
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
And carrots which looked like impacted wisdom teeth crossed with a fantasy of Edgar Allan Poe's.
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Horace
In this way a benevolent spirit is forged and wisdom is free to flourish.
wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
I questioned the wisdom of taking so many pills.
The long vista is there for the seeing. The ground at your feet, the world about you----people, thoughts, emotions, pressures---are now fitted into the larger scene. Everything assumes a fairer proportion. And here is the beginning of wisdom.
Kari is the member that holds them all together with her wisdom and love. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons (Copy)
A state receptible of love, and perceptible of wisdom, makes a youth into a husband, 321. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
This outlook produces limited results that do not really challenge conventional wisdom or official society at the deepest levels.
If you've seen the Merchants of Cool, conventional wisdom is that popular, photogenic people will always be cool and what kids will hope to attain.
Conventional wisdom has it that this kind of government intervention helped to create the East Asian economic miracle.
Now Israel and its leaders must boldly pursue its inherent, often unexpected, wisdom to dismiss with conviction and fortitude national leaders who demand their exilic state and to finally take its rightful place as the nation from whom other nations are inspired. Kevin Bermeister: The Neck And The Site Of The Temple
Wisdom grows with experience, time and age, but not all order people are necessarily wiser. Dr T.P.Chia
Conflict will only arise if we practice prejudice against either wisdom or faith.
Tuyomai had the wisdom of her people in foodful roots and berries and the flesh of wild things. The Pot of Gold
Sustained by the truth received from her divine Founder, the Church has ever sought to fulfill holily the mission entrusted to her by God; unconquered by the difficulties on all sides surrounding her, she has never ceased to assert her liberty of teaching, and in this way the wretched superstition of paganism being dispelled, the wide world was renewed unto Christian wisdom. Libertas Praestantissimum
True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion. Allan Lokos
It is the path that was first taught more than 2,500 years ago by the Buddha Shakyamuni, who succeeded in achieving complete realization of perfect wisdom and compassion.
Nothing is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom than the cliche that economic life is endlessly and inherently uncertain.
The old wisdom used to be to load a nightstand shotgun with birdshot.
Jensom led them all into a bright room, filled with monks inscribing words of wisdom onto tablets and papyrus.
Yet conventional wisdom suggests that such tactics do not work for luxury goods. Times, Sunday Times
We can learn much from that ancient wisdom. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
I see you providing no evidence that the wisdom language ascribed to Jesus is "the one and only top-ladder creation language idiomatical biblical language which is uniquely associated with Godhead in the history of Judaism. HANDS Across the Godhead?
If wisdom does come with age, I should be very, very wise by now - having aged a good decade in the last 24 hours.
There are few youths have sic true judgment as you, respecting the wisdom of their elders; and, as for this fause, traitorous smaik, I doubt he is a hawk of the same nest. The Fortunes of Nigel
Wisdom is better than gold or silver.
Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom.
I often feel like many aspects of my personality remain child-like and unformed, while in other areas I feel a wisdom that belies my age - possible naive musings, but questions that puzzle me on occasion.
Multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Finally the One From Whom All Wisdom Springs cupped water, sky and loam in His hands, and wrought the most perfect of beasts, a creature of the purest substance, one which would bestride the world as a testament to the perfection of His creation, whose power would know no equal, whose visage would rival the angels, and whose consciousness could grapple with truth. Apocrypha « BAHAY TALINHAGA
Four volumes deal with different kinds of material in the Old Testament: narrative, prophecy, poetry / psalmody, wisdom and law.
Several justices voiced doubt about the wisdom of giving police automatic authority to tell all passengers to get out of a car.
Columbia University, by inviting Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak, has shown confidence in the wisdom and adultness of their students and our republic. Thom Hartmann: Columbia University Shows True American Values
The conventional wisdom maintains that this is not surprising. Times, Sunday Times
Having slowly ingurgitated and meditated upon this precious draught, and turned its flavour over and over with an aspect of potent Judicial wisdom Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 2
According to conventional wisdom, the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu was discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, a dashing American explorer with a satisfyingly assonant name who later went on to be the Governor of Connecticut and a US Senator. Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Who really discovered Machu Picchu?
In the human entity it manifests as consciousness reaching in its highest expression towards wisdom and enlightenment.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom. Sophocles
Learn wisdom by the folly of others.
Greek, "The blessing, the glory, the wisdom, the thanksgiving, the honor, the power, the might [the doxology is sevenfold, implying its totality and completeness], unto the ages of the ages. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. Buddha
It is, doubtless, in humble imitation of such illustrious examples, that an Irishman of the lowest class, when he means to express that he is a member of a committee, says, _I am a committee_; thus consolidating the power, wisdom, and virtue of a whole committee in his own person. Tales and Novels — Volume 04
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
The hollow of the bell symbolizes the wisdom cognizing emptiness.
Part of this is due to the timeless quality not only of his work but of his wisdom.
The long vista is there for the seeing. The ground at your feet, the world about you----people, thoughts, emotions, pressures---are now fitted into the larger scene. Everything assumes a fairer proportion. And here is the beginning of wisdom.
The remains are less than a metre below the church floor, contrary to received wisdom that they were interred in a deep family vault. Times, Sunday Times
Poe was the juiciest rhymer of the nineteenth century—before Swinburne, that is—but Mallarmé in his wisdom translated Poe into exquisitely rhymeless French prose, and then Mallarmé published his reverent prose translations in a book, with line drawings by Manet. THE ANTHOLOGIST
Aside from my reluctance to take financial wisdom seriously from someone who uses "payed" instead of "paid", (sank/sunk notwithstanding) you seem to be forgetting the huge number of corporations who _aren't_ listed on the stock exchange, and who don't pay dividends. Medlogs - Recent stories
Experience brings wisdom to some, but overanalysis to most. Times, Sunday Times
The vital importance of love is to love all life without qualms, without wisdom or religion uppermost in the mind of the lover.
Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers. Jarod Kintz
The accepted wisdom is that America is too big for two wheels. Times, Sunday Times
And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom.
Krugman seems to think the conventional wisdom that prediction markets are worthwhile is bearing out to be false: Krugman on Prediction Markets
But business is all based on conventional wisdom.
Events were to prove the wisdom of their decision.
In this mood she sought out Arbaces, presenting herself as one loving unrequitedly, and seeking in sorrow the aid of wisdom. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
Also, those here who give their services to the cause of law and Wisdom in shrievalty, freely, for nothing, they surely - you surely - love Wisdom and rise early to seek it. Sermon at the Temple Church
However, what I really have in mind is something Ancient, and is really captured by terms like 'virtue' and 'wisdom' and (perhaps most of all) "eudaimonia"; and the thinkers I am leaning on are first, Alasdair MacIntyre, and second, Martha Nussbaum (and behind them both lies Aristotle). What do I mean by 'emotional intelligence'?
Workers and employees shared deep reservations about the wisdom of the government's plans for the industry.
superior wisdom derived from experience
With wisdom the apostle connects phronesis, which is here used much in the same sense as sunesis in Col. 1, 9, ` That ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. ' A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.
The wisdom of the people is inexhaustible.
Although he lacks the historical context to articulate Kant's Categorical Moral Imperative, he describes a Supreme Being for whom something akin to this axiom is the ultimate measure of a man, a God who believes that one's ethical duty is to acquire and exercise wisdom, to evaluate and constantly re-evaluate one's beliefs -- including what one's ethical duty is -- by applying the utmost objectivity to one's own preconceptions and prejudices. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART TWO
Local people are questioning the wisdom of spending so much money on a new road.
He's a plodding, conventional square, she's a get-ahead, modern girl who doesn't need to cling to conventional wisdom.
We live in an age where many authors ponder their own experience over and over in styles that can be impenetrable, but Vargas Llosa looks at the world and writes about it with such wisdom that he doesn't fear being understood (there I go again, half-joking). Jane Smiley: Noble Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa
In fact, the term weblog had just recently been coined by one * Jorn Barger* www. robotwisdom.com the previous year. Asimov's Science Fiction
But the Chief Justice's wisdom and logic has overborne your desire to fight for that end.
In the box there would be heritage stuff, the material evidence of the past, as well as history, the wisdom of the past.
Conventional wisdom says that a defendant should look engaged but not fretful, confident but not cocky.
The news of your transfer surprised us all. We will miss you, but realize that exciting opportunities and challenges await you. It has been an honor to be your colleague. We have all benefited from your wit and wisdom and wish you every success on your career path.
Though far remote from the ivy chaplet on Wisdom's glorious brow, yet his stump of withered birch inculcates a lesson of virtue, by reminding us, that we should take heed to our steps in our journeyings through the wilderness of life; and, so far as in him lies, he helps us to do so, and by the exercise of a very catholic faith, looks for his reward to the value he supposes us to entertain for that virtue which, from time immemorial, has been in popular parlance classed as next to godliness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
To care for wisdom and truth and the improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honour and reputation.
Dodd proposes a consumer protection agency -- but wants it to be a part of the Federal Reserve, where it would be likely to have its sword blunted by the conventional wisdoms of central bankers and economists no doubt with Wall Street whispering in their ears. Matthew Bishop: 'The Road From Ruin': Would Dodd's Solutions Create More Useless Bureaucracy (Think Homeland Security)?
And that such as have a great and false opinion of their own wisdom take upon them to reprehend the actions and call in question the authority of them that govern, and so to unsettle the laws with their public discourse, as that nothing shall be a crime but what their own designs require should be so. Leviathan
Our opposable thumbs and big brains gave us the tools to dominate the planet, but wisdom comes more slowly than physical hardware.
The information on 'poetry' I have to advertize, is a bardic prose-poem attributed to Amergin and translated into English first, 1300 years after its composition by an anonymous bard, without title: 'the cauldron of poetry', so called because of the metaphorical conceit in the piece, of poetry being created in a person's three internal cauldrons: Warming, Motion & Wisdom. Poetry: a beautiful renaissance
A case in point is the conventional wisdom on inequality. Times, Sunday Times
Conventional wisdom did not favor retrofitting to coal use boilers originally designed for oil or natural gas.
To one possessed of wisdom, the acts of a former period (thus washed off) and those of this life also (which are accomplished without expectation of fruit), do not become productive of any disagreeable consequence (such as immurement in hell). The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
But there were many cloistered Christians who studied the bible undisturbed by these shadows and doubts, and who, heedless of patristical lore and saintly wisdom, devoured the spiritual food in its pure and uncontaminating simplicity -- such students, humble, patient, devoted, will be found crowding the monastic annals, and yielding good evidence of the same by the holy tenor of their sinless lives, their Christian charity and love. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
The Council showed their wisdom and voted 7-2 to complete the trail, with limitations on where the trail would be built for now, in acknowledgment of the business activity in Ballard. (i.e., a compromise) Ballard Businesses Propose Missing Link Alternative « PubliCola
I read, this morning, the 46th chapter of Isaiah, and, from the fact of this being new years day, my mind has been carried to the goodness of God to usward, in granting all the blessings we enjoy: -- His infinite greatness, wisdom and mercy. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
It is accepted wisdom that science has been partly responsible for the decline of religion.
It is putting up 26 candidates and, apart from a moderately sensible policy querying the wisdom of allowing the current system of postal voting to continue, it's pure barminess all the way.
Wisdom is more to be envied than riches.
To deny causality is to deny divine wisdom, for causality is a necessary relation.
Age and hygienic necessities bind me to a somewhat anchoritic life in pure air, with abundant leisure to meditate upon the wisdom of Candide's sage aphorism, "Cultivons notre jardin" ” especially if the term garden may be taken broadly and applied to the stony and weed-grown ground within my skull, as well as to a few perches of more promising chalk down outside it. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Indeed, they are so against the conventional wisdom that they might be termed heresy.
In the end, the mentor had five short words of wisdom.
You are the patron saint of life, your wisdom and sincerity to hold up the sun life, your selfless sacrifice life, heal the wounded bear bitter hardships, pain.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. Kahlil Gibran
Zac talked in a monotonous drone about the hidden treasures of Egypt, the esoteric wisdom that Aristotle stole, or was it Plato, and then the Egyptians forgot everything.
But the seminar could never do the whole of what a novel does, since theory falsifies where stories teach wisdom.
She quickly became enamoured with his style of writing, entranced by his wordsmith abilities and the evident wisdom of his words.
On Saturday, the "unshakeable" commitment got shaky, as Obama clarified, saying: "I was not commenting on and will not comment on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque there. Joshua Hoyt: On Mosques, Borders, and Our 'Nation of Immigrants' This Election Season
Those Luddites who once argued that we should protect jobs by resisting advances in labor-saving technology are rightly regarded as fools by today's peddlers of standard economic wisdom. The High Cost of a Cheap Pound
Revelation is intuitive knowledge and wisdom about some aspect of nature through divine inspiration.
Voices ranging from Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to some senior army officials are questioning the wisdom and viability of the long-term reoccupation of Palestinian cities. TIME.com: Top Stories
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank. Criss Jami
Those who seek wisdom at the shrine will find it.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn from our mistakes and failuresThe error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Unto me desirous to melodize the choir of apostles, through their intercessions, grant, O Christ, as God, a ray of the All-holy Spirit and the light of Thy wisdom. The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
After this opening, the images of aggression modulate into images that expose the force of her wisdom and erotic energy.
She was the incarnation of wisdom.
Without context we can end up imagining that we know it all, that what is past has no value, that maturity and wisdom can come from the pages of a book or the advice of a guru rather than out of the distilled wisdom of a lived life.
Lacking in moral or spiritual interests; worldly. aaah, but the difference in MY lil label is that a "sensualist" denotes a certain spiritual connectedness that can only be found through physical/material experience ... to quote and old addage ... the path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom you see, how are we to know ourselves if we do not experience all the world around us? how are we to say that something is distasteful if it has never touched our tongues? hmmm? ...JOIN MY NEW DIARYRING NOW DAMMIT!!!...
According to the ancient wisdom, spiritual growth involves transcending the limited and short-sighted Ego to make way for the Self.
There is so much beauty in autumn and so much wisdom; so much separation and so much sorrow! Mehmet Murat ildan
According to received wisdom, exposure to low level radioactivity is harmless.
To him the bird's long face seemed full of patience and wisdom. Times, Sunday Times
axiomatic wisdom
Dr David Hope praised the Queen's ‘unstinting service, profound wisdom and unswerving faith’ during her 50-year reign at a special festal evensong at York Minster.
I've picked out his gift and struggled over an appropriate note that makes a vain attempt to impart something passing for wisdom.
“But I offer it to you as a piece of ancient wisdom, what we call the wisdom of the East.” Oh, <i>Salman!</i> Things Get a Little Blue at Rushdie Reading on Union Square
Does Eden offer a refuge from the world or the wisdom to accept it?
This shadow transmutes into wisdom by letting go of your self-importance and experiencing the enriching depth, expansiveness, and abundance of all life with equanimity. C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala
This year, the firm has found another work by the artist - a depiction of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom and patroness the arts.
Murray's How to Make a Bird shows with rare insight and wisdom the path to growing and becoming that we must all take.
But whenever coaches buck conventional wisdom, they face intense scrutiny from reporters and fans.
Vivek Prakash/Reuters Juhu Beach near Mumbai Thursday; the beach got a new water feature when the cargo ship Wisdom, being tugged to the Alang scrapyard in Gujarat from Colombo, broke away in rough weather and drifted until it ran aground. Asia in Pictures
And this makes men (who in all things are apt to measure God by themselves, though he himself tells us that his ways are not as our ways) inclinable to think that God does so too, that he first projects, and then consults his wisdom how to execute. Motherly Advice
Experts questioned the wisdom of nuclear weapons research. Times, Sunday Times
Wisdom is the mother of kindness, temperance and tolerance. Dr T.P.Chia
Some would question the wisdom of leaving her out of the team.
While commonplace wisdom spurns escapism, practical experience sometimes calls for it.
His "cosmic vision" is to blend Christianity with "the wisdom of all world religions".
Thank Heaven, we have not yet come to think that the highest form of wisdom is enshrined in the _sesquipedalia monstra_ of chemical formulae, still less in the extreme abstractions of mathematics. Nature Mysticism
She was a robber baroness; she dwelt in a rocky "fastness" -- whatever that was -- surrounded by a crew of outlaws as desperate as any that ever drew cutlass and dagger, and she ruled them not only by native strength of character, but also by the aid of other forces, for she was on friendly terms with the more prominent wood sprites, fairies, and the like, and they brought her wisdom. Flowing Gold
Some people say that with age comes wisdom and knowledge, and as such you can live a much richer life.
What is not wisdom is danger.
But I notice that you laugh and in your laughter is the wisdom of the ages. A Briton Looks at the World
A light or lantern may be included as a reference to her wisdom, as well as a play on her name, from lux, the Latin word for “light.” A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art
If Apple were looking to encapsulate his wisdom in two words, it could do worse than "speed kills. How Apple Foot-Dragged to Victory
I admire and respect the wisdom, experience and discipline of old coaches.
They should try and bequeath us their memoirs, autographies or a collection of their speeches to enable us benefit from their experience, knowledge and wisdom to serve as a guide to the present and future generations.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
University of Colombo : Wisdom Shines Forth Everywhere.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
She began to harbour doubts over the wisdom of their journey.

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