What availed
as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.
Not only that, they fly in the face of some massively overhyped myths that masquerade
as common wisdom, these days, especially among the entrepreneurial crowd:
Not exact matches
«While
common wisdom has it that higher volatility necessarily signals a discrete end to the [bull market], it is often the case that higher vol is a natural occurrence in the «late innings» of extended rallies, particularly when the Fed is raising rates,
as was the case in late 1999 - 2000,» he wrote.
The
common wisdom for setting a price on a product or service is that it can be
as high
as you like so long
as someone is willing to pay.
Innovators constantly ask questions that challenge
common wisdom or,
as Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata puts it, «question the unquestionable.»
Drawing on the
wisdom of thinkers
as diverse
as St. Augustine and Leon Kass, and on the
common sense of such figures
as Charlie Brown and former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski, Schall wittily argues that «unserious activities» help make human life worth living.
In the best tradition of all religious «
wisdom literature» or scriptures,
as true believers like to call them, are widely
common source or plagiarized
as non-believers like to call it.
And yet,
as often happens, Jesus» advice is also based on
common sense — the sort of down - to - earth, practical
wisdom that is dispensed today by people like Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, and that fills the Old Testament book of Proverbs.
According to a
common Semitic idiom, just
as sons of wickedness are wicked men, and sons of tumult are tumultuous ones,
wisdom's children are people who have
wisdom.
But the more frequently stated goal is
as revolutionary
as it claims to be — to displace the
common wisdom regarding human sexuality in both church and culture.
Even in this «extreme» book, which attempts to call into question our ability both to know God's will and to predict our fate, we find two root affirmations
common to the
wisdom tradition, based
as it is in creation: (I) God is sovereign, and (2) present life is to be lived in joy
as God's gift.
We been given in the Whole heavenly scriptures including Quran stories that when are read or recited they are supposed to inspire us from it's
wisdom of the old, reading those stories is like feeding our senses for knowing which becomes to be known
as man's
common senses.
This despair,
as I have said, is the
commonest, it is so
common that only thereby can one explain the rather
common opinion in
common intercourse that despair is something belonging to youth, which appears only in youthful years, but is not to be found in the settled man who has come to the age of maturity and the years of
wisdom.
If we believe in the
wisdom of God
as one
wisdom shared with us both in creation and revelation, then the call to the
common search for truth is a brilliant solution to the problem of tolerance and dialogue when faced with the claims of revealed religion.
This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically
as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the
wisdom of
common sense.
Huffington Post: Hispanic Churches, Historically Spanish - Speaking, Adopt More English To Appeal To U.S. - Born Latinos While it's become
common wisdom that English - speaking churches will shrink
as younger generations, who are typically less religious, become the majority, the Spanish church - known across denominations for its religious fervor - is battling to keep its youth in the faith.
Then, in Him and of Him we eat the Bread of Life at the
common table of Our Father, and grow in
wisdom, age and grace personally and
as a People before God and men.
The ACOG guidelines implicitly view ethics
as a matter of private emotion and sentiment, rather than
as common rationality and shared practical
wisdom.
In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such
as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical
wisdom, the
common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.
It was that message, the «word of the cross» preached by Paul, that struck both Jews and Gentiles
as scandalous foolishness,
as an offense against both the
wisdom of the educated and the
common sense of ordinary people.
Perhaps,
as Sabbath keepers, we will come to live and know these truths more fully, and thus to bring their
wisdom to the
common solution of humanity's problems.
The canonical books of
Wisdom Literature portray certain characteristic features: Some
common OT themes such
as Promises to the Patriarchs, Exodus, Sinai, Covenant and the divine oracles etc. are almost absent.
It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the
common good, or in the role of a lover of
wisdom (philosopher), engaged
as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.
Less
common is the appreciation that Christ completes the movement of theological thought which is expressed in the body of Old Testament writing described
as Wisdom Literature.
Christians in affluent countries in the twentieth century have grown used to such a fast pace of life and to such constant changes in the material environment that we tend to think that our problems are unique, that the past is worthless
as a source of
wisdom for modern times, and that our ancestors in the faith have little in
common with us.
For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine
wisdom to be heard, read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested,
as the Book of
Common Prayer's collect for the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life,....
For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine
wisdom to be heard, read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested,
as the Book of
Common Prayer's collect for the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou has given us in our Savior Jesus Christ.»
Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the
common experiences of his life, such
as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great
wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.
Olympians Gary Hall Sr., Mike Troy, John Kinsella, Jim Montgomery, Don McKenzie, Charlie Hickcox and nine - time gold medalist Mark Spitz were among 200 IU alums who came back to Bloomington to dip into their
common past — and in some cases, into the water —
as they remembered Doc Counsilman, the man who used to sit on a bench at poolside, sipping coffee, reading mail and occasionally dispensing swimming
wisdom through a portable amplifier.
We help you reconnect with this
wisdom, guiding you through a class specifically designed for the journey of pregnancy, interweaving childbirth education
as well
as addressing therapeutic applications —
common aches and pains.
«I don't see this
as hurting our event this summer,» Read said, «especially if the
common council sees the
wisdom of permitting an exception for sidewalk activity one or two days per year.»
Because of our great genomic similarity (sometimes even cited
as ~ 99 %), the presumption that we evolved from a chimpanzee - like ancestor has become increasingly
common wisdom.
Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes (Alfred A. Knopf) Taubes's latest addition to the crowded genre of diet books dismisses
as folly the
common wisdom of calorie counting.
This result defied
common wisdom as well
as contradicting the public belief that eggs increase risk of high blood pressure due to their high cholesterol content.
The traditional
wisdom of yoga needs to be combined with up - to - date, evidence - based kinesiology
as it relates to
common posture alignment issues.
It's
common knowledge that you achieve more
wisdom as you age.
Common wisdom tells us to intervene
as fast
as possible, that waiting is a bad thing.
The Download (comprising 4 files, within one zip file) includes: - A PPT Containing a Full Lesson - A complete lesson plan covering: objectives, key - words, differentiation, and lesson timeline - Double - sided A4 worksheet - A3 Silent Debate group worksheets - A Homework Task The topic of the lesson focusses on the following part of the specification: Human Concerns [Duties / Virtues / Yamas] • Hindu understanding of the concepts of free will, suffering and virtue, including their relationship to karma and samsara • The meaning and importance of Hindu virtues / moral duties (yamas), including harmlessness / non-violence (Ahimsa), compassion (daya), selfcontrol / restraint (dama) and giving (dana) • The relationship between virtues and particular elements of dharma •
Common and divergent emphases placed on human concerns by different Hindu groups, including which virtues are identified
as of core importance • Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of
wisdom and authority by different Hindu groups Sources: Mahabharata V 39 Bhagavad Gita XVI, 1 — 3 Bhagavad Gita VIII 8 — 12 This is part of a series of lessons, if you like it: save countless hours by downloading the complete course!
When presented to students through a lively pedagogy of received
wisdom, such
as may be found in
common maxims and precepts, these moral traditions can provide a compelling historical dimension to character education.
• Atman
as the eternal self, the part that is liberated from Samsara • Atman
as identical with Brahman • Atman
as distinct from Brahman •
Common and divergent understandings of the atman and liberation (moksha) by different Hindu groups •
Common and divergent understandings of the relationship / connection between atman and Brahman by different Hindu groups •
Common and divergent understandings to the approaches of different yogas by different Hindu groups • Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of
wisdom and authority by different Hindu groups
Common wisdom tells that a FWD pickup is a bad idea
as weight added to the bay will transfer the weight to be rear bias, hence putting more weight and grip on the rear wheel instead of the front wheels where the power is sent.
Lin was eager to give people a framework for enjoying life, and he built it using the
wisdom of ancient Chinese literature
as well
as a large helping of
common sense.
They take big risks, they ignore
common wisdom (such
as the notion that there's nothing left to discover in North America), and they even make love in hammocks stretched between branches three hundred feet in the air.
Common wisdom says that every surplus that you have such
as a salary hike or a bonus payment, it should go towards the payment of your home loan, but it may not be possible to do that always.
The MOI interview with MITIMCO team consists of many nuggets of
wisdom like» The most
common mistake we see is when an investor makes small compromises in the early days of the partnership in ways that limit future success» and «We've observed that almost all the very successful and established firms we work with turn away large amounts of capital — they even did so when they were small, by the way — because they understand the need to apply the same high bar to their choice of partners
as they do their choice of investments».
The
common wisdom seems to be to wait
as long
as you can to start taking Social Security retirement benefits.
Conventional veterinary
wisdom states that annual vaccinations have decimated the incidence of formerly
common viral diseases such
as feline panleukopenia, rhinotracheitis, feline leukemia, canine distemper, hepatitis, and canine parvovirus.
While so much of today's
common wisdom around appropriation grants that tactic a kind of distanced purview, from which an artist might critique while simultaneously participating in prevailing modes of cultural representation, we all too rarely account for the ways in which a sort of lasciviousness attends the venture — especially, perhaps,
as younger generations take up its presumed look and legacy.
Diagnosis, in brief: (1) they write about stuff they clearly don't understand (2) they pick a catchy reverse -
common -
wisdom nugget
as a headliner without the having the slightest interest in whether it is true or not (3) they pick an expert to talk to, but since they don't have a clue about the subject they don't know how to pick a good expert, or even understand what the expert says (4) there is a grain of sense in there, but so badly wrapped in trash it is nearly unfindable.
As we watch the hot topics within the legal industry, we are regularly reminded of Will Rogers»
wisdom when he said, «
common sense ain't
common.»