Among his six reasons for the wisdom of this tactic, are these two: Forcing Obama to take an unwelcome step establishes once and for all that the OWS movement is not a stalking horse for the Obama campaign.
The only hope for America's children and its public schools is that parents and teachers will raise their voices for reason, wisdom, and quality education.
"I've been fighting pretty hard not against anybody, but definitely for reason, sense, wisdom, peace, love, which are all the things that I think are lacking in this entire election cycle," he said.
Senior clerics at Cairo's Al-Azhar mosque, a regional center of Islamic learning, also called for wisdom and reason in confronting any perceived offense to Islam.
In Book Nine, reason is characterized by its desire for wisdom.
Contrary to popular wisdom, the reason for the collapse in Seattle was not the presence of several thousand disgruntled demonstrators.
Still, to fulfill its function of ruling, reason needs wisdom, the knowledge of what is beneficial for each of the parts of the soul and for the whole (442c).
Folk wisdom suggests that the reason for this difference is cultural, which, depending on your perspective, means either that Europeans are ambitionless café-dwellers or that Americans are Puritan grinds with no taste for the finer things in life.
Conventional wisdom suggests an obvious reason for the improved service: With fewer passengers and flights, the airlines have more time and resources to spend on customer service.
For this reason alone, the wisdom of approving Russia's takeover of the company is debatable.
For this reason, the conventional wisdom holds that young Americans, growing up in a world of ever more certain scientific evidence, increasing news attention, alarming entertainment portrayals, and school-based curricula, should be more engaged with and concerned about the issue of climate change than older Americans.
