Sentence examples for wisdom on matters from inspiring English sources

Activists from all walks of life continue to challenge received wisdom on matters of faith, national security and identity too.

But one of the deepest pleasures of ["Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975"] is to see how each woman comes to fill a role that neither could have imagined: how in their years of crisis McCarthy becomes Arendt's most trusted intellectual defender, while Arendt becomes an adviser of genuine wisdom on matters of love.

He took the iconoclasm and activism of the 1960s into the rest of his life, supporting CND and green politics as well as constantly questioning received wisdom on curricular matters.

In place of open discussion about learning, we have had to put up with sudden ministerial blurts about, say, the virtues of rote learning, delivered from on high as if the wisdom on such matters rests with you or whoever occupies your office.

The received wisdom on the matter demands the briefest reiteration.

Mr Mankiw said at the time:On the substantive question that Paul raises about the unit root literature and the distinction between cyclical and other fluctuations in output, it is an issue that Campbell and I addressed in a companion paper, where we decided that the conventional wisdom on this matter, which Paul still espouses, does not hold.

We are not sure why this is the proper time — maybe the Pilgrims are posthumously deciding they should have brought their talents to South Beach — but the memo was circulated so widely that even Lakers Coach Phil Jackson decided to spread some of his wisdom on the matter during a radio interview.

It turns out that "conventional wisdom" on the matter of race and criminality is a good deal more conventional than it is wise.

Some critics of the service argue that only the most senior Islamic scholars have the wisdom to dispense answers on matters of law or practice.

These results are compelling and go against conventional wisdom on this subject.

For two years, he appeared on the nationally syndicated television show "The People's Court," where he displayed his wit, wisdom and impatience as he ruled on matters big and small.