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...her, there are three types of people in this world - lovers of honour, of wisdom and of wealth. I am of the first type, and that is all I want."

According to Brad Clough writing in 2003, the received wisdom among American and European scholars, though contested, is that they are th

...tors of different volumes.<ref>''The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha'', Wisdom Publications/Pali Text Society, 2012, page 1691, note 747</ref>. ...makes changes in the text<ref>''The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha'', Wisdom Publications, 2012, notes 533, 584, 1338</ref>

*Monuments Conservancy Perennial Wisdom Award, 1999

:''"Philosophy being nothing else but the study of wisdom and truth, it may with reason be expected that those who have spent most ti

...and ''Republic'' (Allegory of the Cave) describe a method for ascending to wisdom. ...osophical interlocutor, he leads his respondent to a clearer conception of wisdom, although he claims that he is not himself a teacher (Apology). His role, h

...was known for being aggressive, but willing to challenge the conventional wisdom.

...ion and the administration of blood and blood components. The conventional wisdom was that giving [[erythrocyte|packed red blood cells]] (PRBC) was the most

“…a testimony to the enthusiasm, wisdom, and optimism with which Louis Martin approached politics. For more than h

...ole because the two horses’ power is directed by the charioteer. Lovers of wisdom – ''philosophers'', in one sense of the term – should rule because only

* Philip Carr-Gomm. The Rebirth of Druidry: Ancient Earth Wisdom for Today. ISBN 0-00-715665-0 * Ross Nichols. The Book of Druidry: History, Sites and Wisdom. ISBN 1-85538-167-2.

..., conscious mind, and unconscious mind. The intellect receives and digests wisdom or Truth; reasons and discerns; and exhibits will and understanding. Depend ...ting people to their way of thinking but were anxious to share some of the wisdom gained during those years of deep contemplation and study, to enable others

..."Patton" (1970), in which actor Karl Malden favorably presented Bradley's wisdom in counterpoint to Patton's rashness. Bradley died in New York City, Apr. 8

...is]] in Egypt and study with the priests there who were renowned for their wisdom. He also was discipled in the temples of Tyre and Byblos in Phoenicia. Vari ...a]], Pythagoras was familiar with and an admirer of [[Jewish]] customs and wisdom (''De Pythagora, Contra Apionem'' I, 162/165). Hermippus is quoted as sayin

...The most popular of the Gods, both in present time and the past, he values wisdom over all else, to the point of sacrificing his own eye for knowledge. He t ...He was loved by all and perfect in every way for his beautiful appearance, wisdom, and gracious matter. It was said that none could question his judgements.

...t ultimately her approach would melt down. But it didn’t.” He saw the new wisdom coming from outside Washington: “I can see neocons reaching out to govern

...idson (a Stein friend from her Paris years) wrote. "She somehow symbolized wisdom." He depicted her here as "a sort of modern Buddha." }}

"We find in his method the wisdom and circumspection of the Scottish school, with something more masculine an

..."<ref>Mayrhofer II 182</ref>, Priyamazda (priiamazda) as Priyamedha "whose wisdom is dear" <ref>Mayrhofer II 189, II378</ref>, Citrarata as citraratha "whose

...500 BCE - these were mounds containing large wooden troughs. Conventional wisdom holds that these were used for cooking, by filling the trough with water an

...ef name="sah" /> Adams once complained to his wife, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of m

...pharmakon]] that functions as a kind of charm or recipe which will enhance wisdom. Cadmus,however, is not pleased with the gift because he sees in it potenti

...verbs, the satire of Esther, the eroticism of the Song of Solomon, and the wisdom of Ecclesiastes and Job.

...atter, being largely a collection of aphorisms in defiance of conventional wisdom.

...d a role in German expansion by means other than war, but the conventional wisdom had been that it was much less important after the 1939 outbreak of war, a

In 2015, his ''Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization'' was published by St. Martin’s Press. His

...ging oneself in order to develop the qualities of awareness, kindness, and wisdom. The tenets of Nyingbulam’s spiritual practice and teachings are straight

...ent humans from having drinking water. They are often the symbol of hidden wisdom or knowledge, the teachers of sages and kings. In a single bound they could

...radise, a little higher than Aristotle, and called him a flame of heavenly wisdom. Certainly, the influence of Thomas, and his promotion of Aristotle, on all

...arios, when introduced in proper fashion. At the same time, they lack the wisdom an older horse has acquired and may be more reactive to unfamiliar stimuli.

In previous decades, the common wisdom among health scientists and women using contraceptives was that IUDs were g

'''Indigenous knowledge''' (often called '''traditional knowledge''', '''folk wisdom''' or '''folk knowledge''') is local knowledge of any field of human inquir

...ast to the fourth century BCE and is a reference to Athena, the goddess of wisdom.

[[Psalms]], [[Odes]], [[Proverbs]], [[Ecclesiastes]], [[Song of Songs]], Wisdom, [[Ecclesiasticus]]

...Text Society, and the first four in the Teachings of the Buddha series by Wisdom Publications; for details see separate headings below. Translations of the ...Discourses from the Pali Canon'', edited and introduced by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Wisdom Publications, Somerville, Mass., 2005: [http://www.wisdompubs.org/book/budd

...<ref name=theguardian2022-09-02/> Mount is the author of ''"[[The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson]]"''. ....com/politics/2022/sep/02/boris-johnson-gives-peerages-job-author-book-wit-wisdom-harry-mount

...er impenetrable to careless reasoners, and gives it the air of science and wisdom."</blockquote>

...ough the exercise of a veto over the appointment of people who dispute the wisdom of its views, the substitution of political correctness for analysis, and t

...is the Word of the Buddha.<ref>''The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha'', Wisdom Publications / Pali Text Society, page 1120; ''Gradual Sayings'', Pali Text ...Colombo, 1984, p. 113; Bodhi, ''The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha'', Wisdom Publications / Pali Text Society, 2012, page 1591, note 3, citing John Kell

...aretz|''Haaretz'' columnist Akiva Eldar wrote <ref>Akiva Eldar, "Perles of wisdom for the Feithful", Haaretz, 1 October 2002, ''quoted in'' Mearsheimer & Wal ...re were reasons not to go to Baghdad in the Gulf War, and the conventional wisdom of the time was that Saddam would be overthrown by an internal coup. Failur

....com/politics/2022/sep/02/boris-johnson-gives-peerages-job-author-book-wit-wisdom-harry-mount ...= Boris Johnson gives peerages job to author of book on his ‘wit and wisdom’

...ttp://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=chla;idno=3117174 The Wisdom of the Body.] W.W. Norton</ref></p> ...ologist who pioneered the concept of homeostasis. In his seminal text, The Wisdom of the Body, he described it [homeostasis] as "the coordinated physiologica

...e.<ref>[http://books.google.co.in/books?id=bhRdpEBpKTcC&pg=PA51 Buddha, in Wisdom Beyond Words: The Buddhist Vision of Ultimate Reality (2000), p. 51]</ref>

...members, if they "...lay down their arms, renounce terrorism and return to wisdom, we are prepared to deal with them...They are a threat not only to Yemen bu

...n by 1490. He was a special form of holiness, which has been called ‘crazy wisdom’ or “devine madness”. He is said to be against the monasteries as the He preached the Buddhist faith as was instructed in the Spiritual Wisdom. Now his fame as Terton (treasure discoverer) spread not only in Bhutan but

...the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given the control of the property interests of the country." The union

...found to withstand the wily exactions of dishonest taxpayers, I doubt the wisdom of filling their places with females."

...tried to share his experiences with his disciples and to transmit the old wisdom to the later generations.

* The Mēnog-ī Khirad ("Spirit of Wisdom") ...astrianism. The meaning of the word Ahura is "lord", and that of Mazda is "wisdom".

He questioned the wisdom of selecting Sarah Palin, seeing McCain's need to build trust in the base o

...mmand chief GEN David Petraeus, he has made his position clear between the wisdom of national policies, and the responsibilities to conduct them. In a July 2

...ears, the rough estimate of a million deaths per year was the conventional wisdom, but a major study in 2001, updated in 2004, indicates the [[#mortality and

...tive ability, includes rational decision-making and creative thinking, and wisdom&mdash;suggesting that otherwise the risk of non-adaptive, or mal-adaptive,

...n Sarbadhikari|Supten]], is that a quote or an adage or something? Or beer wisdom? I really like it ...[[User:Louise Valmoria|Louise Valmoria]] 23:12, 4 Marc ...e, local or otherwise? Ever visit another country and heard a local bit of wisdom that made you think twice? [[User:Louise Valmoria|Louise Valmoria]] 23:15,

...yata'' - about the Psychology Service, having to do with consciousness and wisdom

* [[Jñāna Yoga]] (the path of wisdom).<ref name="ISBN 1-884852-02-5"/> Jnana yoga is the path of wisdom, or true knowledge, and appeals to people with an intellectual nature.<ref

...thing in national security. It was an idée fixe, a rigid belief, received wisdom, a decision already made and one that no fact or event could derail. .../search?tbs=bks:1&tbo=p&q=%22It+was+an+idée+fixe,+a+rigid+belief,+received+wisdom,+a+decision+already+made+and+one+that+no+fact+or+event+could+derail.+There+

...k; Coin is a boy who outsmarts all the economics professors by showing the wisdom of "bimetallism" (i.e. free silver) and refuting the fallacies about gold}}

...domestic affairs and politics she relied on the shrewd advice and worldly wisdom of her [[Whig]] Prime Minister [[Lord Melbourne]] (see also [[Melbourne, Se

...nd, so that his conversation was always bright and strong and conducted by wisdom... He always lived a bachelor, was generally esteemed, and indeed very popu

...Rome|Romans]] and [[ancient Greece|Greeks]] and established the [[House of Wisdom]] in [[Baghdad]] for this purpose.<ref>http://www.islamicity.com/education/

*Jnana Vahini: The Stream of Eternal Wisdom

...ieve the ultimate reality can be best described as Buddha nature, infinite wisdom and compassion. It is often described as Self, though not as an individual

...irst appearance of Plato's own views. The first of these, that goodness is wisdom and that no one does evil willingly, was perhaps Socrates' own view. What b

...it the power of a "majority dictatorship" because tradition represents the wisdom of past generations. (This argument echoes one made by [[Edmund Burke]], th

...eing recorded and noted, and next year, at the next meeting, a hopefully [[wisdom|wiser]], more [[knowledge|knowledgeable]] group of [[citizen]]s meets, disc ...but couldn't understand the value of a dollar. This suggests, again, the [[wisdom]] of [[Aristotle]], who thought it was best for humans to live as a [[golde

...1977, 1989, 2001) are meant to be deep. They say little and possess great wisdom. They never have to worry about money; they are financially fortunate. Snak

...enized, and that the Cynics were a serious social movement that produced a wisdom literature analogous, they say, to Q1. Nevertheless, the identification of

...ake Americans laugh at themselves earned him the title, "prince of wit and wisdom." His earthy anecdotes and folksy style allowed him to poke fun at gangster

...); Coin is a boy who outsmarts all the economics professors by showing the wisdom of "bimetallism" (i.e. free silver) and refuting the fallacies about gold.

...om Arabic into Latin. This was the time that the European awe for "ancient wisdom" and "The Philosopher" (Aristotle) was born. Initially, the Catholic Church

...past, critics claim it is no longer.<ref name="Curl"/> Others question the wisdom and impact on future generations of an architecture that rejects the past a

...he counsels the princes to avoid the values of justice, mercy, temperance, wisdom, and love of their people in preference to the use of cruelty, violence, fe

...Malthus]] in "An Essay on the Principle of Population" turned the received wisdom upside down and decisively restructured the debate. His stunning conclusio

...k; Coin is a boy who outsmarts all the economics professors by showing the wisdom of "bimetallism" (i.e. free silver) and refuting the fallacies about gold}}

...ting its own ecological disasters and desperately needs ancient indigenous wisdom." The appeal of the "[[earth religion]]s" resonates with concerns about the

...is pamphlet, "An Essay on the Principle of Population" turned the received wisdom upside down. His stunning conclusion was that more people might make it wo

...d ''Orientale'' (op. 50, No. 9)) and a number of solo songs. The received wisdom that he is not a particularly talented composer, at least for large genres,

...ermit. The symbolic Hermit is seen on the summit of the mountain; Staff of wisdom in one hand, and in the other, the Lantern of Knowledge held out abreast ov

...y related to aspects of ''mind'' such as memory and judgment. Conventional wisdom is that learning takes place through changes in synapses, changes that take

Ultimately the wisdom of the "Game of Errors" is unimpeachable, for in it players accumulate poin

...—-a romantic invocation of the American past, a populist insistence on the wisdom of ordinary folk, a faith-based insistence on sincerity and character—lea

Reagan effected a permanent shift in economic policy, so that the wisdom of deregulation and lower taxes came to be widely accepted. The GOP locked

...ices, such as that of [[Henry David Thoreau]], were raised questioning the wisdom of progress, though from more of a philosophical rather than a religious pe

...lation of the Dīgha Nikāya by Maurice Walshe|edition=1st Edition|publisher=Wisdom Publications|year=1996|id=ISBN 0-8617-1103-3}} p. 17</ref>. Pali's grammar

...I have no claim... [The Constitution] was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of m

...veillance of foreigners from the Middle East, leading to debates about the wisdom of ethnic profiling. <ref> But the media did give a harsher image of Islam.

...it the power of a "majority dictatorship" because tradition represents the wisdom of past generations. (This argument echoes one made by [[Edmund Burke]], th ...rative connotation: a conservative himself, he believes that the inherited wisdom of the ages may be a better guide than apparently rational individual judgm

...terage: Conchobar himself; the wise Sencha mac Ailella, who will teach him wisdom and eloquence; the wealthy Blaí Briugu, who will provide for him; the nobl

...rofessor Fogel’s book indicates general praise for its scholarship and its wisdom in willingness to deal directly with the question of the resources needed f

...et ships, with inspections afterward. Mitchell had defied the conventional wisdom by ordering his aviators to try to drop the bombs in the water near the shi

...the emotions will enhance our ability to cope with substance abuse and our wisdom in making decisions about the therapeutic use of psychoactive drugs.

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...early 30s AD. With less certainty, scholars have characterized Jesus as a wisdom teacher; a social reformer; a rabbi; a folk magician; or an apocalyptic who

...s and motto: "Viam sapientiae monstrabo tibi" ("I will show you the way of wisdom." Proverbs, IV, 11). In 1955, the Frank J. Lewis Foundation donated the 1

Nevertheless, the previous conventional wisdom that Hitler gave an oral order to Himmler and Goering is increasingly in do ...ped considerably since the last major campaign. While today's conventional wisdom was that it was a German disaster in the making, that was not obvious at th

...y Leffler (1992), cautiously praised the Truman administration's essential wisdom in handling a myriad of problems.

When it was the British conventional wisdom that Hitler and his followers were not a serious threat, she concentrated o

...irresponsible warmonger. Unfazed by these criticisms and confident in the wisdom of his foreign policy initiatives, FDR continued his twin policies of prepa

...icial "history" has glossed over these problems to present a view of great wisdom and encouragement.