Sentence examples for call wisdom from inspiring English sources

It comes close to measuring what we might otherwise call wisdom.

All our days are so unprofitable while they pass, that 'tis wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue.

But in tests to do with making connections, assessing the quality of competing arguments and emotional intelligence – the ingredients of what we commonly call wisdom – people go on improving for a long time.

It is what we at The Eldering Institute® call "Wisdom in Action™".

Instead, we tap into a deeper part of the mind - what some people call wisdom, or guidance.

If you think of wisdom as a set of criteria by which we judge a particular decision, it certainly depends on experiences, but one can have a density of experiences at any age that would be relevant to the thing we call wisdom.

Calling virtue beautiful feels misplaced in modern terms, or even perverse; calling wisdom beautiful, as the Symposium does (204b), will sound like an outright mistake (Kosman 2010, 348 350).

The word "her" does not refer to the heavenly homeland, but to a lady called Wisdom.

In other scriptural passages, the lady called Wisdom is described as the mother or the bride of the Creator God.

Included in his large following of fans, both in Britain and the US, was Charlie Chaplin, who called Wisdom his "favourite clown".

A more important reason for the decline of the earlier philosophic tradition, however, was the renewed vitality and success of the program formulated by al-Ghazālī for the integration of theology, philosophy, and mysticism into a new kind of philosophy called wisdom (ḥikmah).