It's a funny thing to write, "I have no wisdom to offer you," as Schumer did, in the introduction to your own book.
And that's important: It tells us that as Congress and the administration try to reform the financial system, they should ignore advice coming from the supposed wise men of Wall Street, who have no wisdom to offer.
Rembrandt, in his self-portraits, looks at you with a deep knowledge of life: Philip IV's eyes hold you as overwhelmingly, and as movingly, yet have no wisdom to impart.
I have no wisdom to impart to a younger generation of "willing to do anything" males.
That would be great, of course, except that I had no wisdom and I felt like a fraud.
I have no wisdom to make sense of such an event, nothing to say that will bring her back and no words that will erase the horror that will remain in the life of the people who knew her.
"Pollywanacraka" also concerns interracial relations, including Blacks who leave their communities to marry wealthy Whites, and societal views of the matter: "This system had no wisdom / The devil split us in pairs / and taught us white is good, black is bad / and black and white is still too bad".
After Edward Snowden showed how far the surveillance state had extended its tentacles, he was described as a kook, a traitor, or, worst of all, a mere "contractor" who had no right to question the wisdom of his superiors and his government.
But it is not particularly important to Stevens, who has no political wisdom, and who is, in any case, preoccupied with enforcing his own regimen of emotional repression.
