Furthermore, this was the kind of theosophical (divine wisdom) idea that was associated with the Qarmaṭians and the supporters of the Zanj slaves.
Both men were long sceptical of the feasibility and wisdom of ideas put forward by Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve.
"One of the realizations that cultural leaders and publishers have had is that there is a lot of expertise, wisdom and ideas in their readership".
His participation included sharing wisdom and ideas with young social scientists arriving at the University of Chicago, as he did with me when I arrived in the early 1990s.
As staff 'graduate' they contribute directly to the development of the organisation and ultimately give back to the organisation their wisdom and ideas through the development of others if they reach 'academic' status.
But new research shows that despite the conventional weight-loss wisdom, the idea that eating breakfast helps you lose weight stems largely from misconstrued studies.
In presenting a Nobel to Robert J. Shiller, of Yale, the prize-giving committee did the right thing, recognizing a contribution that challenged a piece of received wisdom — the idea that financial markets are efficient, in the sense that they accurately reflect all available information, and, apart from some short-lived aberrations, generally get prices right.
Togetherness imparts wisdom, an idea that a social fabric can be mended.
Once an accepted kernel of conventional wisdom, the idea that Trump somehow exists outside the GOP and might therefore be disposed of by the party elite now seems wholly irrelevant, if not absurd.
The challenges themselves were the distilled wisdom of 1,000 ideas from the world's scientists.
Each of the three episodes, Power argued, pitted "conventional wisdom" against "new ideas".
