Sentence examples for quest for wisdom from inspiring English sources
Yet Spinoza introduced a conception of philosophizing that was new to the Renaissance; philosophy became a personal and moral quest for wisdom and the achievement of human perfection.
It is an allegory of the quest for wisdom and enlightenment as presented through symbols of Freemasonry; Mozart and Schikaneder were both Freemasons.
And yet, solitary readers continue to be born and to develop, since the quest for wisdom, and for aesthetic dignity and difficult pleasure, will continue.
Gilbert's bestselling memoir of her pilgrimage to Italy and India, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything, followed her quest for wisdom after her divorce.
Red Dust is a powerful and disturbing account of a great country in ferment and of a personal quest for wisdom.
(Last week the chairman of one house said e-books would "nudge Mr. Gutenberg off center stage". The journalists at his news conference reported that he spoke in jest -- though maybe not). And yet, solitary readers continue to be born and to develop, since the quest for wisdom, and for aesthetic dignity and difficult pleasure, will continue.
The Education of a value investor : my transformative quest for wealth, wisdom, and enlightenment.
In books like "In Search of Love and Beauty," "Three Continents," "Shards of Memory" and "East Into Upper East: Plain Tales From New York and New Delhi," Jhabvala writes about the post-Nazi generations of European refugees and immigrants in America: a gloomy subject she often enlivens by sending some of her characters to India on farcically doomed quests for spiritual wisdom.
Together, they tell the story of a man on a quest for knowledge and wisdom.
Walking home, Mr. Treslove is robbed, an incident that sets him on a quest for self-discovery, wisdom and the knowledge of what it means to be Jewish.
China's lasting veneration of the moon has always been synonymous with a quest for peace and wisdom, in the 21st century the Middle Country can contribute to a more cohesive mankind in relation with the great discoveries of the universe.
