Sentences with phrase «of accepted wisdom»

Do you want to control what others hear / read so as not to have them possibly veer from the annointed path of accepted wisdom?

«My findings that parenting practices are unrelated to divorce appear to fly in the face of accepted wisdom,» states Strohschein.

Many of the greatest scientists fought against the tide of accepted wisdom until their observations, experiments, arguments and theories were accepted and, in turn, became the consensus.

As one expert remarked, this «ran counter to much of the accepted wisdom regarding ice sheets.»

Institutional authority works very much like this, understanding and promoting the accepted wisdom, and it's only very occasionaly when someone dares to fly in the face of accepted wisdom, sometimes at great cost to their own «authority», that institutions are forced to change.

There's a lot of accepted wisdom bashing going on here.

That's a pretty fair reversal of accepted wisdom about the rise of the Middle Kingdom.

Not exact matches

It's accepted wisdom that the pace of change in business is accelerating.

She expects earnings per share of $ 3.52 in 2006, the year in which its retail strategy will be unveiled, and a majority of analysts have a Buy on the company — which is something you might not expect, considering the accepted wisdom about the China Threat.

As an investor in start - ups, I have heard the accepted wisdom that out of 10 portfolio companies, only one is likely to be a big success, the rest will either fail or barely return the investment — «only» half of my investments failed.

The accepted wisdom was that actively managed funds could make you rich, while index funds were a guarantee of mediocrity.

Perhaps someone with the stature and wisdom of Solomon will emerge and find a way to develop a framework in which both sides could accept each other within an agreed consensus.

The motto of the Dominican Order is «Veritas», which throws down the gauntlet to our age in which the accepted wisdom is a relativism that asserts, «Something may be true for you, but that doesn't make it true for anyone else.»

But when the man refuses to do this, when he does not accept the word as a Word of God, when he takes refuge behind doubt, or eternity, or human wisdom, when this man asks God to wait, then God rejects him, but he does not send him to hell.

Surely we ought to have the courage to let our heart be seized by God's grace and to accept the scandal and absurdity of our inescapable situation as «the power of God and the wisdom of God» by looking up at the Crucified and entering into the mystery of his death.

Yet, at Easter, it is the latter that God accepts and the former He rejects; what, then, of all the hard - won tragic wisdom of the ages?

Philosophy (which means love of wisdom) I thought it wise to accept the fact that there is someone greater than I that could have made all that has happened in the natural course of events.

We know the need of the sense of being borne by a power not ourselves, being directed by a wisdom greater than our own, and being accepted even as we fail.

Those who are wise in their own minds (whether they are «educated» or not makes no difference) often depend upon their own wisdom; whereas those who are know they have much to learn (that is, they are «babes») are willing to accept what Jesus reveals to them about the character and nature of God.

The Atonement is not a thing anticipated by human wisdom; but once the truth of the Atonement is accepted by faith, it symbolizes all that man can and can not do.

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 is of less significance to know how many of such optimistic or resigned «wisdom» sayings were really spoken by Jesus, than to see that the view of man set forth in this proverbial wisdom is in general accepted by Jesus.

In the summer of 1943 he wrote a notable prayer: «God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that can not be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.»

If we are to accept the conclusions of St Thomas then, since he was the Wisdom of the Father, his capacity for intimate participation in our humanity was that much greater, since sin darkens our intellect, as it weakens our will.

Jane, Buddhism is one of the great religions of the world, in panthrotheism it is one of all religions that God had willed to serve humans who believes on its doctrine.But since we are all humans, we have to experience all the trials of life so that in the future when His Will shall be implemented by us, the wisdom of experience of all religions will be the basis of our decisions.Thats why genocides, wars,, pestilence, natural calamities, and all what we percieve as injustices, such as tyranny, persecutions and all the negative events in history is part of His will, because in panthrotheism, there is no devil or satan.everything has a reason.and we have to accept it, Remember that He is not faith selective but performance appreciative, it is the good things you do that He wills.

But wisdom does more than accept the presence of other life than our own, more than place the self outside the self and in the context of others: it orders life.

On the other hand, Updike also presents genuine wise men like George Caldwell, who accepts the seasons of life as a gift from God, who finds fame, pleasure, and even wisdom to be vanity but who recognizes that all joy belongs to God.

The question is whether others can accept that relativization of their insights and wisdom.

This season has defied conventional wisdom and accepted tenets in EPL such as spending a lot of money on quality players, keeping the established order intact etc..

I'd add it's also a mark of wisdom to accept (not necessarily agree) the idea that people have different ideas to yours.

Soak up the wisdom of parents, who offer tips ranging from bouncing on a birthing ball to accepting that you can't always make...

Overwhelmingly, «Babywise» parents accepted without question the conventional wisdom that «kids today» are out of control.

Researchers generally posit two psychological mechanisms underlying conformity: (1) people's desire to adopt the majority position so as to feel liked and accepted or believe they share the prevailing opinions of their community (i.e., social acceptance); and (2) people learn from the «wisdom of crowds,» or assume that other people did the research so their collective wisdom indicates something about the quality of the candidate or platform (i.e., social learning).

«Keybi, I just have one word of wisdom: you follow your dreams, you work as hard as you can, and you don't accept no as an answer,» Judge Silvera said.

Jeremy Corbyn admitted that unrealistic expectations of Labour's chances had become accepted wisdom and blamed the Conservatives for successfully talking up his party's chances.

I think they genuinely believed we should accept the Treasury's received wisdom over deficits and debt as part of the Lib Dem Strong Economy — Fair Society message.

Scott Armbruster, Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Portsmouth, and one of the authors, said: «Contrary to the accepted wisdom, the role of nectar seems in this instance to not be just about attracting and rewarding pollinating insects.

The situation needs attention before the self - effacing comments of the Sydney vice-chancellors become accepted international wisdom.

How a self - taught naturalist unearthed hidden symbioses in the wilds of British Columbia — and helped to overturn 150 years of accepted scientific wisdom

Writing in the June 2017 issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Nunez takes on the conventional wisdom in the field right now — a widely accepted view in cognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with other species.

The Kavli Foundation recently held a conversation with the new laureates to learn what led them to study memory and cognition, the challenges they faced in getting the neuroscience community to accept findings that often went against the conventional wisdom of the time, and where they see cognitive neuroscience as a field headed.

A new study led by Western University's all - star cosmochemist Audrey Bouvier proves that the Earth and other planetary objects formed in the early years of the Solar System share similar chemical origins — a finding at odds with accepted wisdom held by scientists for decades.

If you're a believer in the 5 - second rule, you've accepted the popular wisdom that it takes longer than that for germs to transfer from the floor to a dropped piece of food.

«From childhood, we learn that vegetables are good for us, and most of us eat our veggies without giving much thought to the evidence behind this accepted wisdom, or to the mechanisms underlying the purported health - boosting properties of a vegetable - rich diet.»

«First, please accept my thanks and my gratitude for my report and your words of wisdom.

In other words, the accepted wisdom on pumpkin seeds and acne is a mere shadow of the truth.

Making insecurities hold you back in life is such a waste of precious time and love the advice the trainer gave about accepting where you are and working towards what you want to be, great words of wisdom!

Somehow, Bob finds wisdom in his patter and learns to accept his mortality better through the reality of statistical probability.

The two impart their wisdom to beat cops, who are equally accepting of and perplexed by their methods, and occasionally dip their sticks in some odd murders in the county.

Based on Jesse Andrews's novel of the same name and directed with a restless visual dexterity that always serves its characters (Gomez - Rejon used to work for Scorsese, and it shows), Dying Girl refuses to accept the common wisdom that high - school films should be graded on a curve.