"attaining wisdom" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe the process of learning or trying to understand something, particularly something complex and difficult. For example: "Through years of careful study, she was finally able to attain wisdom on the subject."
To attain wisdom, subtract things every day," it said, capsulizing teachings of Lao Tzu.
School here is "magic," teachers are "the greatest marvels of all," and students who struggle and strive attain "wisdom".
For Astell, women can attain wisdom and virtue only if they are taught to improve their natural reasoning skills through the study of religion and philosophy.
Stoic epistemology attempts to show how it is possible for human beings to attain wisdom, which the Stoics take to be a condition entirely free of opinion, i.e., false or insecure judgment (see the section on Logic in the entry on Stoicism).
It seems that every Internet writer over the age of 25 has his or her own list of attained wisdom.
This was the space where I would learn how to apply spiritual principles to elevate my understanding of the past, attain wisdom to mindfully manage my future and acquire the passage I needed to harmoniously dwell in the beauty that is now.
The American Society of Dowsers, an organization based in Vermont, claims more than 3,000 members who use various tools — pendulums, L-shaped rods, bobbers — on all manner of mystery, finding minerals and lost objects, and even attaining "ancient wisdom," according to the group's Web site.
In other words, the putative truths of quotidian life are actually delusions that, if believed, prevent one from attaining the wisdom that is capable of leading to the imperturbable peace of nirvana.
Great fiction attains wisdom and craftsmanship so exalted as to exceed our petty nationalisms.
