Sentence examples for way of wisdom from inspiring English sources

Why hast thou perplexed the power of man and the way of wisdom, by rushing forth on a darksome track?

David Greenspan as the cowardly companion of the female knight makes high camp the way of wisdom, albeit shatteringly shrill wisdom.

"Why has thou perplexed the power of man and the way of wisdom by rushing forth on a darksome track?" And it was the disturbing wonder of eclipses, the sun's abandoning of the earth to decay, which haunted English poets.

There are metaphorical meanings Gravel explained at the time (a rock thrown into water creates "ripples into infinity"; twigs "are what people acquire in the way of wisdom").

In the majority of the religions of the East, very broadly, reason's chief role is the purgation of illusion and self-deception so that souls may follow the ways of wisdom and right conduct to their true fulfillment in nirvana.

Either way, pearls of wisdom seem pretty extraneous.

Words have a way of gaining wisdom when their speaker ceases to exist, and in the case of suicide, they grow heavy.

It may be that this rebooted version of nationalism will go the way of the wisdom of crowds and the social animal – novel-sounding ideas that politicians thirsty for soundbites take up and then just as quickly drop.

It's a typically ageist, sophomoric attitude that suggests gays are only interested in sex with a simulacrum of themselves, that their gay elders couldn't possibly have anything to offer in the way of experience, wisdom, or perspective, and that intergenerational sex is something akin to certain styles of torture.

DeMoss recommends reading one chapter from the Biblical book of Proverbs each day, as a way of gaining wisdom.

Harold, a man with "a soul immersed in darkness," and Rose, a younger British woman whose "childish and ignorant pronouncements" at times give way to blazes of wisdom, live within their memories and talk past one another, which leads to a series of darkly funny misapprehensions.