Sentence examples for form of wisdom from inspiring English sources
On the contrary, it's a form of wisdom.
He knew where to put his energy, and that's a form of wisdom".
Here, he seems to be distilling his experiences into a form of wisdom literature, a disquisition on love that emerges in dramatic form.
It too aimed at a form of wisdom but of a much more practical order, based on working out commonsense solutions to life's problems.
Prajnaparamita was not only a form of wisdom, but also a female deity who had roots in ancient goddess worship and was identified with the Buddha's mother.
Writing shortly after the end of the second world war, the French historian André Siegfried claimed (with a characteristic touch of Gallic aplomb) that French thought had been the driving force behind all the major advances of human civilisation, before concluding that "wherever she goes, France introduces clarity, intellectual ease, curiosity, and... a subtle and necessary form of wisdom".
From the 1st century ad onward the word in its Syriac form (magusai) was applied to magicians and soothsayers, chiefly from Babylonia, with a reputation for the most varied forms of wisdom.
Having read Book VI and completed our study of what these two forms of wisdom are, how are we better able to succeed in finding the mean in particular situations?
The word sophia bridges a gap; usually translated "wisdom," it may be used as a rough synonym for techne, but it may also be used for less specific forms of wisdom that are not obviously taught or learned and may lack the rational features of expert knowledge.
As "devotion and art," faithful interpretation acknowledges that contemporary forms of wisdom such as the social and natural sciences and the arts should inform our interpretation.
As shown in the accompanying animation from our upcoming PBS documentary Kumu Hina, māhū were valued and respected not "despite being that way," as you might hear on the continent, but precisely because their gender fluidity helped them in their roles as healers, caretakers and teachers of ancient tradition, passing on their knowledge through hula, chant and other forms of wisdom.
