Sentence examples for higher wisdom from inspiring English sources

By Emanuel Eisenberg The New Yorker, July 15 , 1933P. 12 Master, your higher wisdom strikes me mute.

This demonstrates the higher wisdom of the founding fathers in their resistance to total government by the masses.

I began looking for higher wisdom among the sports journalists chosen as Britain's top operators by their peers (for Press Gazette).

Perhaps the iron entered his soul then; happily the casuists of 1940 ran into a Churchill who was not to be deflected by misty higher wisdom.

People believe that mountains, being the tallest living things on Earth, are closest to heaven, and thus transmit or connect us to the higher wisdom of nature.

The Javanese tradition, by which small groups of disciples were initiated by a teacher into higher wisdom, was paralleled in the Sufi teaching methods.

None of them claimed, however, that he had achieved this highest wisdom.

We are hopeful enough to believe the generous confessions of error, backed by actions, constitute the highest wisdom in politics.

The few who are endowed with the capacity for the highest, demonstrative knowledge are under a divine legal obligation to pursue the highest wisdom, which is philosophy, and they need not constantly adjust its certain conclusions to what theologians claim to be the correct interpretation of the divine law.

If the popular theology preached by the philosophers from al-Fārābī to Averroës is disregarded, it is evident that philosophy proper meant to them what al-Fārābī called a state of mind dedicated to the quest and the love for the highest wisdom.

Acclaimed Australian poet, novelist, and short-story writer David Malouf brought out The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World, a monograph in which he called for a return to the "highest wisdom" of the classics to find meaning and fulfillment.