That's the criteria by which you're measuring wisdom?
Short of policies and short of ideas, they incite citizens to vote with the blind, frightened anger of their base emotions, and not with the confident, measured wisdom of their intelligence.
In an increasingly polarized political environment that has re-energized xenophobic attitudes and anti-Muslim bigotry, the impulse not to criticize individual cultures and the specific, well-subscribed doctrines that luxuriate within them may seem like an exercise in measured wisdom.
Swami Saravanan happily posed for pictures and told us (though not in English) about the rail for "measuring wisdom" that was made by a saddhu (holy man) more than two centuries ago and brought to the temple in 1907 from a point on the hill where the British wanted to build a swimming pool.
But recently this has started to change, to the point where you can now measure your wisdom by answering a few simple questions.
Part of me would like to become that other guy, but such a conversion requires a bit of cash and a bigger measure of wisdom.
Only the soused Sergeant Cokes, suffering from heart problems, achieves a measure of wisdom about what matters and what doesn't, given the unpredictable coming and the unavoidable fact of death.
Positively considered, moral consciousness generates a measure of wisdom, as one's outlook becomes akin to a universal novel that contains the templates for all of the human stories which have been repeating themselves generation after generation — stories comic and tragic, pathetic and triumphant, and trivial and monumental.
In western democracies, we believe that politics requires a measure of wisdom and practical judgment developed over years of experience.
In a time when Washington is paralyzed by partisan standoffs, I know Sylvia will bring a much-needed measure of wisdom and clarity to the contentious budgetary process.
