Sentence examples for confer wisdom from inspiring English sources

Old age doesn't automatically confer wisdom and artistic profundity.

"Confer wisdom on our lawmakers that they remember their duties to everyday citizens like us as they push for the changes necessary to protect our freedoms," she said.

Men who age are "distinguished", the years deemed to confer wisdom; signs of ageing in a woman are considered unsightly, a defect to be remedied by surgery.

Old age doesn't automatically confer wisdom and artistic profundity, but when it does, as in the case of Mr. de Oliveira, "what can emerge is a remarkable mixture of appreciation and sadness, colored with an implacable, clear-eyed awareness of looming extinction," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times.

We elevate these executives into figures to be admired and emulated, as if bank balances alone conferred wisdom or moralilty on their possessors.

These plants have the power to confer great wisdom.

According to legend, the first drops of fat from a roasting salmon confer immense wisdom, for these fish that move between ocean and river and leap between air and water contain great knowledge of how the world works.

So much for age conferring patience and wisdom.