Sentence examples for wisdom if from inspiring English sources

According to local wisdom, if the small guys fall, the end is near.

"That's a kind of received wisdom: If a place gets too expensive, people move out and it shuts down.

Reducing unrealistic standards may be wise, but we can't be sure of its wisdom if the government prohibits such experimentation.

Ancient signs and inscriptions were still carved inside them, "mystic characters" redolent with wisdom if you knew how to read them.

In Tuesday's election, three voter choices showed that people will throw off the strait-jacket of conventional wisdom if properly persuaded.

Taken together, the moves are at odds with conventional wisdom — if not wishful thinking — among establishment Republicans in Washington that Ms. Palin has decided not to run.

Conventional wisdom was, if not always wrong, surely to be questioned.

We had a nice moment basking in this folk wisdom, even if it didn't really apply to the situation.

I don't buy it, but it does challenge the conventional wisdom that if you skip breakfast you'll gorge later.

What we want to do as parents is transmit wisdom — even if we acquired it the hard way — without our children's having to take risks.

"It kind of gives you status," he said, adding that the prevailing wisdom is, "If he's a good player, he must be a good caddie".