The phrase "general wisdom" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "It is a general wisdom that one should never underestimate the power of positive thinking."
What about the general wisdom of such legislation?
He does not even have the benefit of general wisdom one acquires with age.
Given Japan's parlous public finances, general wisdom holds that Mr Abe will have little choice but to go ahead.
The general wisdom is that you should let children express themselves however they want, wherever they want.
Many have had their doubts about the general wisdom of putting young children on drugs to help them focus.
The general wisdom is that divestment was a major influence on ending Apartheid in the early 1990s.
It is part of the general political wisdom of this state that Mr. Florio paid for his tax increase with his career after Republicans very effectively exploited the increases and ushered in the current era of taxphobia.
The general Conventional Wisdom holds that if Walker can't win the Iowa Caucuses he's done.
Richard Fox, political science professor at Loyola Marymount University: "I would say that general conventional wisdom is probably still true.
A dash, too, of Lawrence of Arabia, whose "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" General Giap was seldom without.
Similarly, the first sentence of Thomas Kuhn's masterpiece, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (now half a century old), instantiates a more general piece of wisdom: History can change the images by which we are possessed.
