Sentence examples similar to professed wisdom from inspiring English sources
Salinger, an egotist about his writing who nonetheless professed no great wisdom, either evaded them or turned them away.
Nonetheless, the conventional wisdom professed by most Washington leaders is that these radical new procedures are needed and supported by the public.
Recent work from the IMF about the role of equality as a driver of economic growth has been ignored by the BCA who remain clueless as to why the public are so resistant to their self-professed wisdom and experience.
If he does fill in at lock with Sam Whitelock and Brodie Retallick injured – a possibility with which he professed himself entirely happy, contrary to the received wisdom of every shove-weary lock who ever yearned for the freedom of the back row – it may be that whoever wears No6 in his place, perhaps Steven Luatua, plays a blinder and causes him a problem.
England always professed public belief that they could overturn history and refute perceived wisdom of their surefire failings on the sub-continent.
"I am young, and although I don't profess to possess the wisdom that time affords us, I do know that pre-emptive war is dangerous and wrong," she said.
The most notable representative of Cynicism in the 1st century AD was Demetrius, whom Seneca praised as "a man of consummate wisdom, though he himself denied it, constant to the principles which he professed, of an eloquence worthy to deal with the mightiest subjects".
Born in 1951 in Michigan, he discovered the wisdom of the East at the age of seven, when he took up the martial art of aikido and professed to his parents that he was not of this cosmic realm.
They professed encouragement on Wednesday.
The parties professed mutual admiration.
