Sentence examples for a wisdom of from inspiring English sources

QUESTION FROM KEN: Will James Surowiecki now be coming out with a Wisdom of Crowds II? JOHN SEABROOK: Yeah I thought about Jim's book a lot when I was writing this.

He was a young man full of earthly vigor who had a wisdom of his own, and may the earth in which he rests, not far from here, lie light on his bones, and bring the news, each year, of the return of the sun and of the frost".

Other retailers may offer better prices, but Amazon's large and loyal customer base provides a "wisdom of crowds" safety check for all sorts of products.

We speak a wisdom of God in a mystery, an occult wisdom which God ordained before the aeons for our glory, which none of the world-rulers of this aeon knows.

Surely the report would have brought a smile to the face of Thomas Gradgrind, the forward-thinking educator in Dickens's Hard Times, who insisted that "In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!" Later, of course, a chastened Gradgrind acknowledges that "Some persons hold... that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart.

Sometimes, this approach involves a wisdom-of-crowds approach to experts.

Consumer reviews, heralded as a wisdom-of-crowds force on the Internet, have lost some luster as the system has been gamed.

On a wisdom-of-crowds hypothesis, what most people who are like you choose to do should be the optimal choice for you.

If people turn out to be accurate forecasters as a group — be it because of their own knowledge or because of a wisdom-of-crowds synthesis of public information — they could help pollsters gain insight into the economy and consumer preferences.

Hack et al. reported an analogous study that sought to enhance the diversity of the Johnson & Johnson corporate structure database; they found that whilst there were considerable differences between individual chemists a fair level of consistency could be achieved using a wisdom-of-crowds approach [11].

That's a retrospective wisdom of mine, looking backwards.