The tropes are well worn and well loved: the thrill of victory (for the predator), the agony of defeat (for the prey), the cute pups in the burrow and the reassuring voice of the narrator, whose sonorous tones seem to imply wisdom even if the words tend toward platitudes.
If John McCain's past implies superior wisdom in military matters, then why did he vote for the insane war on Iraq?
It's not even conventional wisdom, because conventional wisdom implies that there might be another side to the story.
She would say it so matter-of-factly as though to imply that wisdom automatically comes with age and in many regards, this is true.
Common wisdom implies that those with an academic training are predisposed to be the more rational learning agent.
The half-smile that flickers on her lips implies a profound wisdom about the things that really matter when you're a certain age (Ms. Stewart is 75), most of all time and memory.
When conventional wisdom implies that an investment is an obvious winner, it usually isn't.
Conventional wisdom implies that a democratic president will naturally benefit from at least one house of Congress also being democratic -- except when both parties excel at obstructionism and getting little or nothing done.
Elsewhere, Cardano's definition of summum bonum is suppler and implies such components as wisdom (sapientia), virtue (especially fortitude and prudence), and progeny: wisdom is distinctively human; expressions of fortitude and prudence can also be seen in several animals; to have children, finally, is a prerogative that belongs to almost all living beings.
There is another expression, "out of the mouths of babes," which implies an utterance of wisdom from someone not expected to have it.
Yet philosophy differs in a fundamental way from art, literature or religion, as its etymological meaning is "the love of wisdom," which implies a significant degree of objective knowledge.
