Sentence examples for persons of wisdom from inspiring English sources

It was a position, he said, "strongly held by many persons of wisdom and integrity".

Cheney, described by Romney as a "person of wisdom and judgment," is lurking.

"Obviously, the giver of these gifts is a person of great wisdom," said Dr. Cole of Montclair State.

We saw then what America sees now: a person of uncommon wisdom and integrity.

Just as the sort of absolute and incorrigible vision of the whole that Plato wanted will never be had, so there will never be what Lear calls "the person of psychological wisdom," the one who has achieved "absolute psychical normality".

Aristotle defines ethical virtue as lying in a mean between excess and defect, and the mean is determined by the person of practical wisdom (actually the male, since Aristotle is sexist on this point).

It is, however, open to the natural law theorist to use this appeal to the judgment of the practically wise person more widely, holding that the general rules concerning the appropriate response to the goods cannot be properly determined by any master rule or philosophical method, but can be determined only by appeal to the insight of the person of practical wisdom.

And while some see Aristotle as being the source of the natural law tradition, some have argued that his central appeal to the insight of the person of practical wisdom as setting the final standard for right action precludes the possibility of the sort of general rules that would (at least in a theistic context) make Aristotle's ethics a natural law position.

Moe's demeanor was always calm, and he presented himself as a person of great wisdom and rationality.

The AMAUTA Global Training in Health Informatics program (AMAUTA is a Quechua word meaning a person of great wisdom, one who knows and who teaches) was developed in 1999 to train Peruvian health care professionals and students in the use, development and application of informatics.

The king and queen claimed high authority for their orders, supported by "the counsel and advice of prelates, great noblemen of our kingdoms, and other persons of learning and wisdom of our Council".