Sentence examples for old-fashioned wisdom from inspiring English sources

It's old-fashioned wisdom, something Bill Withers might have sung, and possibly Drake's true calling.

This phenomenon totally ignores the vast store of untapped — and uncertified — creativity, expertise, and old-fashioned wisdom that resides in the population at large.

Even so he gave me a referral to the same Professor McNicholas who sank his digits and probes deep into my dilemmas and gave me a mix of statistical readouts and old-fashioned wisdom by which I was both succoured and impressed.

It may seem like a bit of old-fashioned wisdom.

The author -- an Episcopal priest as well as a talented chef -- serves up an unlikely stew of theology, metaphysics and old-fashioned culinary wisdom.

I have good old-fashioned kitchen wisdom to thank for knowing to rest gnocchi dough before rolling it, never to crowd a sauté pan, and always to use ice-cold butter for pie crusts.

It was hard for me to read the Dear Jackie letter, with all its vulnerability and old-fashioned man-to-boy wisdom, and not feel a flare of anguished kinship.

"The thing Apax brought, which is absolutely vital, is that old-fashioned quantity known as wisdom," says Lynch.

"The thing Apax brought, which is absolutely vital, is that old-fashioned quantity known as wisdom," says Autonomy's founder, Mike R. Lynch.

It's a return to traditional wisdom, old-fashioned common sense and individual and collective sanity.

Kirkus Reviews finds "old fashioned wisdom" in the book, and calls it "a slim volume packed with nourishing nuggets of wisdom".