Sentences with phrase «by common wisdom»

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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.

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.

Meanwhile the glacial wisdom of our common sense has reasserted itself, having freed itself of an extreme, obstreperous, largely academic faction by shedding it into the sea.

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.

On the other hand, if you do not accept these qualities of history and are free to transcend the limitations of tradition and disregard the counsels of ancient wisdom, your social inventiveness is limited, if it is limited at all, by nothing but elemental common sense and common prudence.

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.

Once you start believing that you, personally, are chosen by God to wield power over others, your ego has gone way out of control and you have actually become dangerous to human freedom and common wisdom.

Rather, they're programmed by a common cultural wisdom that for two centuries has celebrated the intellect over the heart.

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.

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.

It is increasingly common wisdom that we're not going to achieve our collective global sustainability goals by certifying the good practices of every individual enterprise around the world.

What the «common people» want is often not wise or doable, and driven by self - interest, not wisdom.

Anna Martinez, the «stroller mom» on the subway who was slashed in the face by a homeless woman, offered common - sense wisdom when she learned her attacker had been arrested more than 60 times for drugs and prostitution.

Common wisdom in this field had held that the endothelial cells must help immune cells squeeze through by contracting themselves like small muscles, but the present study found no evidence for such contraction - based help.

The common wisdom, promulgated by carmakers since the 1920s, held that traffic fatalities were exclusively the fault of individual drivers (or, to put it another way: cars don't kill people; drivers kill people).

Conventional wisdom would suggest that people who are outgoing and accommodating are better suited to negotiate, but a study co-authored by assistant professor of management Fadel Matta found two sides can reach accord through their common discord.

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.

With this in mind, I'd like to share some of the common wisdom accrued over a millennium and a half (give or take a century) of intermittent fasting on a yearly basis by Muslims.

The common wisdom, backed up by many lab studies, is that properly brewed Kombucha contains a number of specific substances that can directly improve joint health, most importantly Glucuronic acid (also responsible for Kombucha's powerful detoxification properties), Chondroitin sulphate, Mucoitin sulfate, Heparin, Hyaluronic acid and the incredible Glucosamine.

Working hard your entire life is an idea most people get used to by their 21st birthday... but who said this common wisdom applies to everyone?

Beane accomplished this by relying solely on players» statistical data rather than the common wisdom and entrenched processes of scouting.

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!

Some of their conclusions run counter to prevailing opinion (that class size should be increased, for example), and some — like the one presented in the following excerpt — represent common sense wisdom undergirded by fresh insight from research:

• 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

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».

His common sense wisdom, supported by his actions and behavior provide investors of all levels with some valuable lessons.

By Jackson Galaxy The common wisdom in introducing a newly adopted cat to a resident one in the past was to open the carrying case and «let them work it out.»

Such echoes, while perhaps unanticipated in the sphere of common wisdom, make it tempting to return to the literature around institutional critique and appropriation to see what might be newly gleaned today — particularly when it comes to critics who, despite concerns about art's infiltration by mass culture, have lauded artists who position themselves in an expanded field with respect to art for the sake of efficacy.

But like «climate change», road safety has been over-run by the «think of the children» brigade and in the process logic, common sense and plain good practice have been tossed aside to placate the loudest speaker making the most outrageous clams, despite significant evidence to the contrary, and anyone who dares to question the received wisdom of these self - appointed «experts» is (metaphorically at least) tarred and feathered and completely ignored — to the detriment of the very people these «experts» think they are helping.

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The common wisdom was that «forms» didn't require much intellectual heavy lifting anyway and LegalZoom was doing lawyers a favor by handling this mundane work.

Common wisdom is that a leap year is any year divisible by 4.

By combining this strategy with a well - chosen resume template — as well as observing common wisdom, like avoiding passive voice and sticking to a one - page resume — you're most likely to get called in for an interview and increase your chances of getting hired by that potential employer, since what you're representing to the employer is a match both on paper and in real lifBy combining this strategy with a well - chosen resume template — as well as observing common wisdom, like avoiding passive voice and sticking to a one - page resume — you're most likely to get called in for an interview and increase your chances of getting hired by that potential employer, since what you're representing to the employer is a match both on paper and in real lifby that potential employer, since what you're representing to the employer is a match both on paper and in real life.

By now you probably know the story of Antoinette Tuff, a Georgia school employee possessing courage, common sense and wisdom along with the ability to keep her cool in a terrifying situation.

Our Strategies and Tips for Parents and Caretakers and Raising Caring and Fair Kids are based on the collective wisdom of a coalition of diverse organizations brought together by our Making Caring Common project, all of which have extensive experience working with children, educators, and parents on issues such as bullying, social - emotional development, character education, building strong communities, and empowering youth.

In fact, adult children of divorced parents (ACODS) tend to be the forgotten ones because common wisdom tells us they won't be as impacted as children by parental divorce.

The common wisdom — some of it mine, I had just finished six years on the Real Estate Council — was the public would be better served by licensees who were fully trained in property management, rather than by part - time practitioners who did property management only when a client wanted them to find a tenant for the house just purchased.

In a previous article I wrote about a parallel topic to this one, I mentioned The Serenity Prayer, a common name for an originally untitled prayer by the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, is universally apropos to any kind of change, and equally valid for the Canadian real estate industry: «Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.»