Sentence examples for lovers of wisdom from inspiring English sources

Philosophers are not "lovers of wisdom," in the literal meaning of the word, but lovers of the search for understanding.

Lovers of wisdom that we all are, we all benefit from the correction of these mistaken beliefs.

Whether, in fact, lovers of wisdom were also as wise as many of them or their proponents claimed seemed far from obvious to Halevi.

"Philosophers" could only be considered authentic lovers of wisdom if they graduated from disputatious word games, which Ficino thought were commonly taught as dialectic, to the source of ultimate truth.

Those who are lovers of wisdom must be good inquirers into many things (B35; also B101: "I enquired into myself"), and must be able to grasp how the phenomena are signs or evidence of the larger order; as Heraclitus notes in B123, "nature is accustomed to hide itself," and the evidence must be carefully interpreted.

Plato seems to think so; he characterizes each class by its specific kind of desire and its respective good (581c): the philosophers are lovers of wisdom (philosophoi), the soldiers lovers of honor (philotimoi), and the workers are lovers of material goods (philochrêmatoi).

(The Greek word "philosopher" means "lover of wisdom").

The word "philosopher," as everyone knows, means "lover of wisdom," from the Greek.

And here we already see an obvious objection to the label: Isn't everyone employed in a university, and indeed some people beyond, a "lover of wisdom"?

First, if its etymology is anything to go by, philosophy is the love of wisdom, and anybody who has read Gray, or made cursory enquiries into his academic career, cannot reasonably doubt that he is a lover of wisdom.

Socrates, in particular, the "lover of wisdom" who insisted that the most fundamental presumptions of his countrymen should be subjected to experimental investigation, and who ended up being made to drink hemlock for his pains, has always been admired as the very fountainhead of rationalism.