Sentence examples for absence of wisdom from inspiring English sources
According to Robert Hughes, as with Goya's earlier Caprichos series, The Disasters of War is likely to have been intended as a "social speech"; satires on the then prevailing "hysteria, evil, cruelty and irrationality [and] the absence of wisdom" of Spain under Napoleon, and later the Inquisition.
And what is fascinating is that, in the absence of English words, Shakespeare's wisdom stands out with such clarity.
Moreover, the dramatic differences in how good people are at leading lives, and relatedly the dramatic differences in how well they exercise their cognitive and intellectual functions, are due to differences in the conditions of their souls, namely the presence or absence of the virtues of justice, wisdom, courage and temperance.
I turned 36 this week and still feel the profound absence of my mother's guidance, wisdom, and life experience about how best to live my life.
Whatever occupies Socrates on the road to Agathon's, we may infer, ends not in the knowledge Homer is so confident either he or Aristodemus will have, but in the aporetic awareness of the absence of knowledge that distinguishes Socrates' "human wisdom" from the "more than human wisdom" claimed by the sophists (Ap. 20c4-e8).
If these rules are allowed to govern thought in the absence of further reflection and refinement, the result is prejudice instead of wisdom.
The temptation is certainly understandable, but the better part of wisdom is not to toss away our hard-bought freedoms in the absence of truly compelling necessity.
Yet the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons continues to recommend prophylactic extraction of asymptomatic, nonpathologic wisdom teeth in the absence of any benefit and the evidence of much harm.
In the absence of clear guidance, the Edwards jury showed wisdom and common sense.
"Seven Pillars of Wisdom".
