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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.
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.
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



... not that by its very vagueness it becomes inoperative. Who shall say what is best; or what characteristic constitutes excellence in a member of Parliament? If the gentleman means excellence in general wisdom, or in statecraft, or in skill in talking, or in private character, or even excellence in patriotism, then I say that he is utterly wrong, and has never touched with his intellect the true theory of representation. One only ...
— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope
... said a condition, criminal per se, not fulfilled, did not invalidate an agreement—a sentence abounding in wisdom, especially in this instance. ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... do it ourselves! All the children hate the Japanese!" he replied with the wisdom of ...
— Flash-lights from the Seven Seas • William L. Stidger
... O'Connor, to whom he unburdened himself, "'Gifford will never learn. He believes himself to be a journalistic planet. I don't mind an ordinary honest fool that knows it is a fool, but a fool that regards its own inane folly as the final thing in wisdom is hopeless. Gifford ...
— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin
... middle; it opens upon a hall, at the further side of which one may perceive, through the open door of another room, a goodly collection of well-bound and learned-looking volumes—the vicar's library. At the present moment these tomes of wisdom are inaccessible, as the library door is blocked up with unsightly mounds of earth, sewer-pipes, and certain workmen's implements. The fact is, the vicarage has been greatly disturbed of late, owing to ...
— The Servant in the House • Charles Rann Kennedy


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