Sentence examples for as wise men from inspiring English sources

He identified as wise men those who suspend judgment (practice epochē) and take no part in the controversy regarding the possibility of certain knowledge.

"They used to see writers as wise men and women in an ivory tower, full of knowledge, and you cannot touch them," Mr. Coelho recently told an interviewer.

We think of our doctors as wise men and women who can combine knowledge and instinct to land on just the right treatment.

Because of these ethical excellences, skeptics held themselves up as wise men.

Although magi (Greek μαγοι) is usually translated as "wise men," in this context it probably means "astronomer" or "astrologer".

But Basil Paterson, 81, has also served for years as wise man and eminence grise for many of New York's biggest and most powerful unions in their contract negotiations.

Muhammad is invited as a wise man, as an arbiter, as a reconciler to the city of Medina, an offer that he accepts.

"That is a practice at least as old as the wise men following the star to Bethlehem," Michael Tobman, a political consultant in Brooklyn, said.

In other chapters, Hatterr encounters charlatans posing as ascetic wise men and lunatics revered as sages.

This year, the Wisconsin-based group has put up its own version of a manger in the Wisconsin State Capitol, with Einstein, Darwin and Emma Goldman standing as the wise men and a black female doll as the featured infant.

The advisers, known here as the "wise men," were appointed after a divided electorate yielded a stalemate after elections in February.