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Wisdom   /wˈɪzdəm/   Listen
Wisdom

noun
1.
Accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment.
2.
The trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight.  Synonym: wiseness.  Antonym: folly.
3.
Ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight.  Synonym: sapience.
4.
The quality of being prudent and sensible.  Synonyms: soundness, wiseness.  Antonym: unsoundness.
5.
An Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC.  Synonym: Wisdom of Solomon.



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"Wisdom" Quotes from Famous Books



... more wisdom in the management of his greater province of New York. In 1683 he instructed his governor, Thomas Dongan, to call a representative assembly, which met in the fort at New York. The assembly adopted an act called "The Charter of Liberties and Franchises," which was approved, ...
— The Land We Live In - The Story of Our Country • Henry Mann
... may be among that class who think the "family physician" the embodiment of medical wisdom, and that if he has failed to cure the case or pooh-poohed it away, there is no hope. But no one M.D., however learned, knows all about the ills of flesh. In this, as in the legal and other learned professions, a man may practice ...
— Manhood Perfectly Restored • Unknown
... the word of God. But remember it is not by merely reading it that you are to look for a blessing to your soul. You must pray for the teaching of the Holy Spirit, who alone can open your understanding, and incline your heart to heavenly wisdom, that you may not ...
— Aunt Harding's Keepsakes - The Two Bibles • Anonymous
... Goethe's or Emerson's, an expression of intuition and faith. Properly, the literary essay is a distinct artistic genre—the expression of a concrete thinking personality, and its value consists in the living wisdom it contains. Such essays as those of a Montaigne or a La Rochefoucauld make excellent materials for the social sciences, and can never be displaced by them as sources ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker
... we should not fear to question the wisdom of our fathers, but conclusions they have arrived at in matters of government after long study, observation, and actual experience should not be disregarded unless their ...
— Concerning Justice • Lucilius A. Emery


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