Word Finder - wisdom

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An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.

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A piece of wise advice.

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The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.

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The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.

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The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.

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The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.

Surprised at the casual wisdom of her words, Gabriel was quiet.

The highest wisdom is one.

It is wisdom that King Solomon asked God for, not intelligence.

So really, wisdom is power.

His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all time, he never once glances at the subject.

Sure. My mind isn't donating any words of wisdom that make a lick of sense.

His wisdom grew mainly out of his own reflections and experiments.

But the great wisdom of Peisistratus is shown most clearly in the skill with which he blinded the people to his absolutism.

The seriousness of Mr. Cooms' concerns convinced me of the wisdom in securing what he suggested.

He is a beneficent and venerable old man of the sea, full of wisdom and skilled in prophecy, but, like Proteus, he will only reveal what he knows under compulsion.

It turns out that, even when doing what you love, both passion and profit matter—but that particular piece of wisdom came later with age.

First among these may be mentioned Wisdom.

To true wisdom there is only one way, the path that is laid down in my system.

Indeed, I owe to her loving wisdom all that was bright and good in my long night.

As much as she distrusted Wynn, she'd seen the caution in his features, the haunted wisdom of his gaze.

The event proved his wisdom.

The constitutional quarrels of his reign were conducted with decency and order, because the king knew his own limitations, and because his subjects trusted to his wisdom and moderation in times of crisis.

This wholesale destruction of accumulated wisdom in the name of God precipitated the dark ages from which we did not recover until the Renaissance.

Secondly, wisdom requires the humility to listen and to learn.

I suggest that there are some errors in this ritual obeisance to received wisdom.

Carry it to Delphi and leave it there in the Temple of Apollo; for Apollo is the fountain of wisdom, the wisest of the wise.

Jesus was born in adultery The and nurtured on the wisdom of Egypt.

The higher order of minds dwelt with preference upon the beneficent wisdom of the Creator.

The findings challenge the conventional wisdom that low intensity forms of EI have little effect on performance.

Wisdom often requires new thinking about old problems and new ideas may seem heretical at first.

Nature is what we know - yet have not art to say - so impotent our wisdom is to her simplicity.

That suggests pantheism, the usual form of such esoteric wisdom.

The manner in which they did this challenged the conventions of human/animal interaction as well as the traditional wisdom of lion pride behavior.

Always capable of bringing a smile to the room with his witty repartee, his words of wisdom are not unfortunately, repeatable here.

I thought how strange it was that such precious seeds of truth and wisdom should have fallen among the tares of ignorance and corruption.

The most remarkable chapters, in which St Benedict's wisdom stands out most conspicuously, are those on the abbot (2, 3, 2 7, 64) The abbot is to govern the monastery with full and unquestioned patriarchal authority; on important matters he must consult the whole community and hear what each one, even the youngest, thinks; on matters of less weight he should consult a few of the elder monks; but in either case the decision rests entirely with him, and all are to acquiesce.

In accordance with this scheme Pericles sought to educate the whole community to political wisdom by giving to all an active share in the government, and to train their aesthetic tastes by making accessible the best drama and music. It was most unfortunate that the Peloponnesian War ruined this great project by diverting the large supplies of money which were essential to it, and confronting the remodelled Athenian democracy, before it could dispense with his tutelage, with a series of intricate questions of foreign policy which, in view of its inexperience, it could hardly have been expected to grapple with successfully.

They were men who made the laws, and much depended upon their wisdom.

I define wisdom as deriving a course of action from applying a value system to a situation.

It may be said that the author, while denying that wisdom (practical sagacity and level-headedness) can give permanent satisfaction, yet admits its practical value in the conduct of life.

This may be so; but it would be strange if a writer who could say," in much wisdom is much grief,"should deliberately laud wisdom.

Hatred of God is the beginning of wisdom.

But he was eminently a safe man, not an original thinker, but a counsellor of unrivalled wisdom.

Other of the Biblical Wisdom books (Job, Proverbs) are compilations - why not this ?

After Christ has appeared from heaven in the guise of a warrior, and vanquished the antichristian world-power, the wisdom of the world and the devil, those who have remained steadfast in the time of the last catastrophe, and have given up their lives for their faith, shall be raised up, and shall reign with Christ on this earth as a royal priesthood for one thousand years.

The Stoic regarded the condition of freedom or slavery as an external accident, indifferent in the eye of wisdom; to him it was irrational to see in liberty a ground of pride or in slavery a subject of complaint; from intolerable indignity suicide was an ever-open means of escape.

The ten Sephiroth, which form among themselves and with the 'En Soph a strict unity, and which simply represent different aspects of one and the same being, are respectively denominated (i) the Crown, (2) Wisdom, (3) Intelligence, (4) Love, (5) Justice, (6) Beauty, (7)iFirmness, (8) Splendour, (9) Foundation, and (io) Kingdom.

Hence Wisdom, the second Sephirah, and the beginning of development, when it proceeded from the Holy Aged (another name of the first Sephirah) emanated in male and female, for Wisdom expanded, and Intelligence, the third Sephirah, proceeded from it, and thus were obtained male and female, viz.

The impressiveness and the stimulating power of the mystic ceremonies, the consciousness of being the privileged possessor of the secret wisdom of the ancients, the sense of purification from sin, and the expectation of a better life where there was to be compensation for the sufferings of this world - were all strong appeals to human nature.

But now bolder spirits arose who did not shrink from applying the distinctions of their human wisdom to the mysteries of theology.

It argued no ordinary foresight thus to recognize that Hungary's strategy in her contest with the Turks must be strictly defensive, and the wisdom of Sigismund was justified by the disasters which almost invariably overcame the later Magyar kings whenever they ventured upon aggressive warfare with the sultans.

Its three roots go down into the three great realms - (I) of death, where, in the well Hvergelmer, the dragon Nidhug (Niandggr) and his brood are ever gnawing it; (2) of the giants, where, in the fountain of Mimer, is the source of wisdom; (3) of the gods, Asgard, where, at the sacred fountain of Urd, is the divine tribunal, and the dwelling of the Fates.

His wisdom is shown by the prudent measures which he took by enacting the Nizam-ijedid, or new regulations for the improvement of the condition of the Christian rayas, and for affording them security for life and property; a conciliatory attitude which at once bore fruit in Greece, where the people abandoned the Venetian cause and returned to their allegiance to the Porte.

While forming and promoting his scheme, he was actuated by principles of political wisdom and by the purest patriotism.

The trend of his letters was to impress on the boy a profound sense of the high destinies to which he was born, the necessity for keeping his nobles apart from all share in the conduct of the internal government of his kingdom, and the wisdom of distrusting counsellors, who would be sure to wish to influence him for their own ends.