In a way, I think, in terms of wisdom, the most banal truisms are the most useful: "do the right thing", "whatever works", stuff like that.
"If we ignore the second thread, it is much harder to connect with our deepest courage and wisdom, the most essential building blocks of leadership".
Despite occasional swipes at recent policies, What Next? is conventional wisdom of the most elevated kind and, like all versions of the genre, it avoids unmentionable realities.
And it has long been received wisdom that the most famous of my predecessors, Kenneth Tynan, was a dazzling advocate and gadfly.
In 1999, the two men had a conversation about the potential benefit of an organisation that followed the "village elders" model of influence, whereby the wisdom of the most senior members of a community carries great weight.
"Kahn's specialty was to express the rand conventional wisdom in the most provocative and outrageous fashion imaginable," Fred Kaplan says in his excellent history of the Cold War defense intellectuals, "The Wizards of Armageddon" (1983).
Many of his columns for Car and Driver and Automobile were reprinted in "Thus Spake David E.: The Collected Wit and Wisdom of the Most Influential Automotive Journalist of Our Time" (1999).
To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness.
It's time to leave you with the ultimate wisdom from the most amazing teacher I've ever had, Professor Albus Dumbledore: "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" Fantasy can be real and it can make real life much much easier.
"It is strange if someone thinks that politics or practical wisdom is the most excellent kind of knowledge, unless man is the best thing in the cosmos" (1141a20 22).
Wisdom is the most important, however, because it is a kind of knowledge, like carpentry, about how to use the other assets so that they are beneficial (281b-c).
