Sentence examples for wise and benevolent from inspiring English sources

Unlike the wise and benevolent figureheads of monotheistic tradition, this lot are whimsical, contrary and cantankerous.

The name was derived from a pre-Revolutionary association named after Tammanend, a wise and benevolent Delaware Indian chief.

While the theory has no place for Mosaic geology, it provides ample testimony to a wise and benevolent nature.

ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn was a wise and benevolent ruler, an active patron of the arts, and a great builder of public works.

For those reared on a cartoon vision of tyrannical British occupiers and wise and benevolent founding fathers, Schama's first demand is to sit up and start asking questions.

Anti-GM activists, many of whom are devout atheists, often insist that our DNA is somehow special, something donated to us by an all-powerful, wise and benevolent nature, which has taken God's place as our creator.

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That theory is thus correct, the Mohists think, because it captures the ethical norms followed by Heaven, the wise, impartial, and benevolent agent at the apex of the cosmic political hierarchy, to whom all people should "identifying upward".

The popular image of him as warm, wise and kindly was absolutely true but he was never just a benevolent uncle.

The search revealed that positive attributes — such as great, wise and merciful — and benevolent actions — such as bless, give and grant — were in the overwhelming majority.

Rather, they argue that Heaven is a guide to what is benevolent and righteous because it is a supremely noble, wise, impartial, benevolent, and reliable agent.