Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roundly cheered by the striplings of Birkenhead School last year he dropped one last pearl of oracular wisdom: "While you are young, cultivate the habit of industry. I regret that I never...
...King, a trained engineer, a general of tried experience,† an all-round sportsman and aviator, ripe with the judgment of two score and ten, began at once to exercise his dictatorial power with vigor, discretion, wisdom...
...WINNOWED WISDOM - Stephen Leacock-Dodd, Mead...
...starved bachelor, he opened men's eyes to the importance of instinct, despite his pessimism, which argued: there is a life-force (Will) which makes us reproduce, then leaves us to struggle on; only intellect can save us, by objectifying self and studying life detachedly until the "wisdom of death" comes. He also saved Genius from being eliminated as a factor in human history by the less discriminating foes of Intellectualism. France and England did not really need Kant's assurance that matter existed, nor his categorical imperative. Science was advancing. Industry grew. The bourgeoisie were busy...
Charles MacVeagh, U. S. Ambassador to Japan, puissant barrister, Manhattan aristocrat, became suspect last week of being a descendant of the famed "Wise Men of Gotham." The most celebrated of their acts of wisdom was dipping water with a sieve at midnight to catch the moon...