Sentence examples for lacking in wisdom from inspiring English sources

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A world overrun with facts but lacking in wisdom!

It seems clear that its meaning is such that if God were to choose to create less than the best it would logically follow that he is lacking in wisdom, goodness or power.

For he clearly holds that from the fact that a being does less good than it could it logically follows that the being in question is lacking in wisdom or goodness.

Indeed, Leibniz says that "to do less good than one could is to be lacking in wisdom or in goodness", that the most perfect understanding "cannot fail to act in the most perfect way, and consequently to choose the best" (1710, 201).

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I won't pretend that I will always have the right answers, but what I lack in wisdom I make up for in anecdotes.

With riot-police spewing choking clouds of tear-gas round the clock, and Tahrir's resilient crowds of protesters again swelling into hundreds of thousands, the market for cheap, Chinese-made gas masks has proved rewardingly brisk.Egypt's rulers, on the other hand, seem sorely lacking in such street wisdom.

This was once regarded as a savvy piece of political wisdom, but the empirical evidence for it is lacking in recent years.

There's wisdom in the culture that I think is lacking in a lot of Western cultures.

Rather lacking in fizz.

What Sqezy lacked in conventional spelling wisdom it more than made up for in its catchphrase: "Easy Peasy Lemon Sqezy".

Short men make better husbands, and make up in wisdom what they lack in stature, says self-confessed small man, Adam Gopnik.

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