wisdom
IPA: wˈɪzdʌm
noun
- (uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
- (countable) A piece of wise advice.
- The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
- The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
- The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
- (theology) The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
- (rare) A group of wombats.
- (rare) A group of owls.
- (biblical) The Wisdom of Solomon, a book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
Examples of "wisdom" in Sentences
- Old people have wisdom.
- It's the inscrutable wisdom of the market.
- This is the manifestation of the highest wisdom.
- Conventional wisdom has not coalesced on the matter.
- The book and the torch symbolize intelligence and wisdom.
- To gain understanding that wisdom may be vouchsafed to me.
- Learn from me, use the rules intelligently and attain wisdom.
- I did not always listen, but his wisdom is a part of me today.
- The wisdom of individuality is also known as Discriminating Wisdom.
- The intro paragraph equates sapience with intelligence rather than wisdom.
- The perfection of reason is wisdom, and the pursuit of wisdom is philosophy.
- “But I offer it to you as a piece of ancient wisdom, what we call the wisdom of the East.”
- He seems to believe his wisdom is a good substitute for the collective wisdom of his colleagues.
- SPIRIT, by which was "revealed" to them "_The wisdom of God_ ... even the _hidden wisdom_, which GOD ordained before the world."
- All our days are so unprofitable while they pass, that 'tis wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue.
- As it says in the beginning, -- "Tending babies is an art, and every art is founded on a science of observations; for love is not wisdom, but love must act _according to wisdom_ in order to succeed.
- And truly the reason may in part be, that people have become doubtful whether colleges are now the real sources of what I called wisdom; whether they are anything more, anything much more, than a cultivating of man in the specific arts.
- Why that has decayed away may in part be that people have become doubtful that colleges are now the real sources of that which I call wisdom, whether they are anything more -- anything much more -- than a cultivating of man in the specific arts.
- Welcoming the South African delegation, which is attending Lome for the first time since its inception in 1957, European Union co-president Henry Lord Plumb paid tribute to what he called the wisdom and courage of President Nelson Mandela and other South