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Is not the present world crisis a race between things we have created which can now destroy us and between populations of sufficient wisdom and character to forestall the tragedy.
How can we have the wisdom to meet such a new and difficult challenge??
And it remains to be seen if the new frontier now taking form can produce the leadership and wisdom necessary to understand the current shape of events.
On the other hand, where a person has performed skillful actions based on generosity, loving-kindness ( metta ), compassion and wisdom, rebirth in a happy realm, i. e. human or one of the many heavenly realms, can be expected.
Believing that without Christian wisdom there can be neither prosperity nor success in war, Alfred aimed " to set to learning ( as long as they are not useful for some other employment ) all the free-born young men now in England who have the means to apply themselves to it.
In Harper's book ( The Passions Of Great Fortune ), his comment on the song ends ".. there must always be some hope that the children of ' Bloody Sunday ', on both sides, can grow into some wisdom ".
" Rather than aspiring to compassion and wisdom, people can easily fall prey to the vices of cruelty, madness
They can explain why chemistry is so prevalent in the interstellar medium, where many different polyatomic species have been detected ( by radio astronomy ), but where temperatures are so low that conventional wisdom might suggest that chemical reactions do not occur.
Thus Ockham argued that " Socrates has wisdom ", which apparently asserts the existence of a reference for " wisdom ", can be rewritten as " Socrates is wise ", which contains only the referring phrase " Socrates ".
However, this argument may be inverted by realists in arguing that since the sentence " Socrates is wise " can be rewritten as " Socrates has wisdom ", this proves the existence of a hidden referent for " wise ".
He believes that he can discover what is good to do in life by acquiring wisdom and using it to examine and contemplate the world.
Evidence quality can be assessed based on the source type ( from meta-analyses and systematic reviews of triple-blind randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials with concealment of allocation and no attrition at the top end, down to conventional wisdom at the bottom ), as well as other factors including statistical validity, clinical relevance, currency, and peer-review acceptance.
The Great Man Theory is a 19th-century idea according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of " great men ", or heroes: highly influential individuals who, due to either their personal charisma, intelligence, wisdom, or political skill utilized their power in a way that had a decisive historical impact.
Some scholars assert that the gospel teaches that salvation can only be achieved through revealed wisdom, specifically belief in ( literally belief into ) Jesus.
Folk wisdom contends that dry grits, scattered where ants will eat them, can be used to kill them by causing them to ' explode ' as the grits expand inside them.
Accepted wisdom has it that amplifiers add less latency than regenerators, though in both cases it can be highly variable, and so needs to be taken into account.
The origins of philosophy can be traced back to early Mesopotamian wisdom, which embodied certain philosophies of life, particularly ethics, in the forms of dialectic, dialogs, epic poetry, folklore, hymns, lyrics, prose works, and proverbs.
As this " secret wisdom " can almost always be traced to recent sources, tellers of these stories have often later admitted they made them up.
Right view begins with concepts and propositional knowledge, but through the practice of right concentration, it gradually becomes transmuted into wisdom, which can eradicate the fetters of the mind.
The books can be broadly divided into the Pentateuch, which tells how God selected Israel to be his chosen people ; the history books telling the history of the Israelites from their conquest of Canaan to their defeat and exile in Babylon ; the poetic and " wisdom " books dealing, in various forms, with questions of good and evil in the world ; and the books of the biblical prophets, warning of the consequences of turning away from God.
For a better understanding of " wisdom " ( hikmah ), one can refer to The Quran itself.
The jaw can dislocate if a person opens their mouth too wide, particularly when a person attempts to open the jaw widely in an effort to stretch the facial muscles i. e. to relieve tense facial muscles as the wisdom teeth develop and emerge.
In line with Christ and Reid-Bowen, thealogy can be conceived of in a systematic fashion with specific methods, while deasophy, a concept coined by Max Dashu, which addresses the wisdom of the Goddess tradition, may not necessarily be systematically ordered.
The nearly complete and mysterious disappearance of the Celtic language from most of the territorial lands of ancient Gaul, with the exception of Brittany, France, can be attributed to the fact that Celtic druids refused to allow the Celtic oral literature or traditional wisdom to be committed to the written letter.

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they will trust only their physical sensations, the wisdom of the body, the holy promptings of the unconscious.
The other reason ( and the one with which I am here concerned ) is that one thus becomes inclined to inquire of any opinion, or change of opinion, whether it represents the wisdom of experience or is only the result of the difference between youth and age which is as inevitable as the all too obvious physical differences.
To Clement, sin is involuntary, and thus irrational, removed only through the wisdom of the Logos.
Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the “ dean of the Impressionist painters ", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also " by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality ”.
The Dharma may be perfectly realized only by the noble disciples ( Pali: ariyas ) who have matured and who have become enlightened in supreme wisdom.
Socrates said, " The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Lovers of wisdom – philosophers, in one sense of the term – should rule because only they understand what is good.
The entire occupation of the world will be only to know God ... the people Israel will be of great wisdom ; they will perceive the esoteric truths and comprehend their Creator's wisdom as is the capacity of man.
He had reigned only three months, but in this short time had shown more wisdom and grace than anyone had expected.
I was always impressed not only by the grace she displayed in public at all times, but by the wisdom she showed in private conversation.
Not only does it help wisdom, compassion and bodhichitta arise in the practitioner, it also enhances siddhis ( spiritual powers such as clairvoyance, precognition, reading others thoughts, etc .).
" Solomon became a favorite author and contributor of different kinds of wisdom literature, " including not only the collections of Proverbs, but also of Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon and the later apocryphal book the Wisdom of Solomon.
According to the Rabbinical literature, on account of his modest request for wisdom only, Solomon was rewarded with riches and an unprecedentedly glorious realm, which extended over the upper world inhabited by the angels and over the whole of the terrestrial globe with all its inhabitants, including all the beasts, fowl, and reptiles, as well as the demons and spirits.
Mass nouns, like " wine ", " silverware ", and " wisdom ", are normally used in only the singular.
Individual capital, the economic view of talent, comprises inalienable or personal traits of persons, tied to their bodies and available only through their own free will, such as skill, creativity, enterprise, courage, capacity for moral example, non-communicable wisdom, invention or empathy, non-transferable personal trust and leadership.
The early sophists ' practice of charging money for education and providing wisdom only to those who could pay led to the condemnations made by Socrates, through Plato in his Dialogues, as well as Xenophon's Memorabilia.
This immanent process of self-consciousness, therein indeed a trinity of persons is not given but only rendered possible, is mirrored in, and takes place through, the eternal and impersonal idea or wisdom of God, which exists beside, though not distinct from, the primitive will.
It was only after he had lost his kingdom to the Persian king Cyrus, while awaiting execution, that Croesus acknowledged the wisdom of Solon's advice.
* God is not ignorant ( one should not say that God is wise since that word arrogantly implies we know what " wisdom " means on a divine scale, whereas we only know what wisdom is believed to mean in a confined cultural context ).
Some of these stories, the " wisdom literatures " may have just started as a ' short story ', but since writing had only recently been invented, it was the first physical recordings of societal ideas, in some length and detail.

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