Sentences with phrase «of folk wisdom»

Although there is a long history of folk wisdom about uncertainty before marriage, there has been little scientific study of this issue.

Perry's art is also full of folk wisdom and shared beliefs.

Other piquant discussions include rebuttals of folk wisdom, as in an explanation of disciplining a dog after the fact, and clear directions for using set - ups to correct very specific infractions.

Next to my desk, I hung a scrap of paper on which I wrote this quote from the life - changing book Coercion & its Fallout by Dr. Murray Sidman: «An overworked and incorrect bit of folk wisdom pronounces the carrot to be of no avail unless backed up by the stick.

Certainly, the fact that I had translated some of these tales back in the nineties really helped me have a sense of them, since I'd studied them and thought about the lessons they were teaching: this is a tale of cunning; this is a tale of folk wisdom; that's a tale about listening to your elders; that's a tale about not listening to your elders.

You know how it goes: better safe than sorry, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and any other bit of folk wisdom elevating careful prudence and preparedness over convenient short sightedness.

Rebuilding the world's fisheries will require tossing out a piece of folk wisdom that has led to harmful policies.

It is a piece of folk wisdom, elevated to philosophical principle by Santayana, that one must understand history in order not to repeat its mistakes.

The enactment, however, must still at some point include a «speech act» pointing out the meaning of the action, and here once more Shakespeare is able to exploit the resources of folk wisdom, to turn it into music, and to place it in the mouth of one of his characters, who at that moment becomes the chorus commenting on the meaning of the play.

Both Orwell and Shaw thus have a point when they accuse Shakespeare of having a philosophy that rarely transcends the hackneyed, time «tested saws of folk wisdom.

Not exact matches

The note, full of Buffett's famous folk wisdom, also gave hints as to who may be next in line to take over the top leadership role if Buffett were to pass away or step down.

As companies like Shopify scale, managers inevitably lose that immediate knowledge of what's going on every day, and so the folks at Shopify unleashed the wisdom of its crowd.

It can certainly be credited for geographical knowledge, as well as folk wisdom learned from experience, such as the proscriptions against eating shellfish or pork, but it is certainly nothing more than the recorded myths of a specific people from specific points in time.

Jewish folk wisdom gives us a memorable answer: «It took 4 days to take Israel out of Egypt.

There are elements of good sense in folk wisdom and popular religion, and what health remains in the body politic depends on this.

Especially in a country in which folk wisdom and popular religion have diverse cultural sources, the appeal to these is often highly divisive, as today over issues of abortion and homosexuality and religious practices in the schools.

In general, folk - theories are unsystematic accumulations of conventional wisdom on a particular topic; they may embody some truth but are as likely to embody much falsehood.

I've argued in a few pieces now that this is emblematic of his overall approach to governance (like here)-- a rhetorical insistence on a robust populism but a reflexive tendency to replace any deference to the prudence of common folks with the wisdom of techno - experts.

Matthew knew what John knew — John did not have a higher evolution of understanding of who Jesus claimed to be than the other apostles — it is just in the wisdom of God as He used each writer to convey understanding to the folks who received the letters and for our benefit in the ages to come that Matthew focuses on different things than John.

When we turn now to Proverbs it is apparent that wisdom's more common theme is one of practical, often pithy, and sometimes quasi-philosophical, or better folk - philosophical counsel.

The folk wisdom that gets expressed from time to time by various actors thus serves as a kind of implicit Greek chorus commenting on the action.

And precisely because the proverbs and folk wisdom being expressed are true, and recognized as true by the audience, they create a bond between the meaning of the play and the experience of the spectators.

But fortunately for us the Hebrew found God in history, in law, in the folk wisdom of the people and in his flights of poetic inspiration, as well as in his profound questionings concerning the meaning of life; so we have actually preserved for us a veritable wealth of literary variety of expression.

One by one, they revealed a deep understanding of motherhood and of their infants, often using folk wisdom that had been handed down to them.

In the book David and I argue that the supposed negative relationship between income inequality and democratization was seductive to many scholars, since it confirmed the folk wisdom of generations of scholars on the left and right.

«What we have done is proven the folk wisdom that the structure of the human voice matters and actually shown that scientifically,» co-author Professor Casey Klofstad of the University of Miami said.

Folk wisdom, of course, also advises to avoid eating large meals in the evening.

The show must go on folks until we replace these kinds of officials and public servants with people possessing integrity and wisdom.

Science is now substantiating that there is a lot of wisdom in many of these folk remedies and Eastern therapies.

The folks at SheKnows.com asked me to lend them some wisdom on the oft studied, oft misunderstood, oft discussed, oft debated tangle of that, that,... [Read more...]

There's a bit of internet folk wisdom, frequently (and incorrectly) attributed to Margaret Atwood, which reads, «Men are afraid women will laugh at them.

Spoiler alert: none of the forty folks interviewed, representing 3000 years of wit and wisdom, show interest in dying earlier than 100.

Jenny Berlin and Scottish actor Ken Stott kvetch their way through their roles as Bobby's observant New York Jewish parents, letting Woody wallow through hoary stereotypes spouting the Wisdom of God's Chosen folk.

Models like Montessori and Waldorf are catnip to these folks; they want teachers who can role - model a kind, soulful, tolerant, mindful way of living in the world — a sort of wisdom that goes beyond mere knowledge.

The Dodge brand is turning 100 this year and to mark the occasion it invited some folks who were alive during the birth of the company to share some wisdom and check out the new 2015 Dodge Challenger.

The Dodge brand is turning 100 this year and to mark the occasion it invited some folks who were alive during the birth of the company to share some wisdom and check out...

It s a treasured piece of American folk wisdom that makes all kinds of sense in terms of home maintenance.

Somewhere along the way the good folks of the port settled in the wisdom that coffee was all the culture and industry a town required.»

So why are there quite a number of folks who have decided not to subscribe to all the well - worn advice, in the face of conventional financial wisdom?

All of my month ahead folks, any sound wisdom to offer on saving while living paycheck to paycheck?

I'm not a financial expert, but I too question the wisdom of citing an economics professor (as opposed to say, a finance professor) who is recommending annuities period, especially for folks in this age bracket.

Folk wisdom says that if you throw a frog in a boiling water, it will promptly jump out of it.

I'm still looking into the best way (tax-wise) of tapping the 457 (b) during those five years and beyond (preferential tax treatment of long term capital gains and dividends may not be available for 457 (b) plans)-- and some wisdom from the MF would be great in this regard — but a 457 (b) does seem to offer unique opportunities to folks considering early retirement lucky enough to have access to this deferred compensation plan.

Rojas uses aspects of folk art and craft traditions in fairy - tale narratives that range from the wisdom and mystique of female sages to the relationships between animals and humans.

Her 48 embroidered cotton squares titled «Lessons From My Mother,» for example, present bits of Eastern European folk wisdom accompanied by equally wry illustrations.

As the literary historian Houston A. Baker writes, the blues emerged from a matrix of work songs, group seculars, field hollers, sacred harmonies, proverbial wisdom, folk philosophy, political commentary, ribald humor, elegiac lament, and much more.»

Folk wisdom consists of common - sense beliefs passed down orally through generations of ordinary people.

And it's worth pointing out that our understanding of these biases, however much it may seem to match with folk wisdom, is actually a precise product of careful scientific investigation in rather recent times.

Remember, folks, we are talking about folks who, with almost no knowledge of a subject, reject the wisdom of those with decades of experience in the field.

And folks who argue that we only have X years left to fix the problem should probably reconsider their claims and reconsider the tactical wisdom of drawing lines in the sand.