How to Use wisdom in a Sentence

wisdom

noun
  • She has gained a lot of wisdom over the years.
  • I fail to see the wisdom in doing that.
  • He had the wisdom to stop before he said too much.
  • He shared a valuable bit of wisdom with his daughter.
  • These stories offer plenty of wisdom to readers.
  • My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
    — Lauren Green, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
  • Aegon, for perhaps the very first time in this entire show, displays wisdom for once.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • For tactics are not tricks concealed, But wisdom sharpened on the field.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
  • His music gives me chills, transmits cosmic waves of light, wisdom, and divine emotions.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
  • Pair an experienced person with someone just starting out and then hope wisdom rubs off.
    — Kent Merrell, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Prevailing wisdom tells us rookie cards are the most valuable collectible.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 7 July 2026
  • But Russert says wisdom can help the political news landscape.
    — Jay Stahl, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • And dad, thank you for your unconditional love, wisdom, and support through every stage of my life.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
  • That shift matters profoundly because in a world drowning in data, wisdom still needs a human hand to steer it.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • In the film, the Challengers actress plays Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and war.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
  • Your experiences and words of wisdom will be shared in installments of the newsletter.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 8 July 2026
  • That's the kind of wisdom that takes a decade to build and one quarterly decision to permanently destroy.
    — Karan Sharma, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • There is wisdom that comes with experience, and that applies to many aspects of life, including beauty.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Books used to be an essential source of knowledge, memory, wisdom, and morality.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • There are also skills from having wisdom and experience that also matter.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • As our bodies, minds, and spirits gain wisdom from more people and experiences, role models and heroes change.
    — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026
  • An astonishing wealth of information and wisdom has been bequeathed to us.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • These experts were brought back to raise quality standards and scale wisdom in ways that make humans matter, even with AI.
    — Brian Solis, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • His set doesn’t build enough to be rewarding in the aggregate, and his individual riffs keep stopping short of real wisdom.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 June 2026
  • The last tumultuous decade of grievance and attacks on our democratic norms should have taught us to adopt the wisdom of Maya Angelou.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026
  • Whatever the wisdom of letting dying languages die, the ethics of killing a thriving language are quite another matter.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • Recent lab research is starting to give that folk wisdom some concrete support, though the science stops well short of proving a raw bar order will change a hormone panel.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2026
  • In many other traditions, dragons are not symbols of greed but of wisdom, protection, and prosperity.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
  • For years, the prevailing wisdom among retail experts was that luxury shopping would steadily migrate online.
    — John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2026
  • This refers to a company's collective judgment, domain expertise, and the wisdom to discern what to build and, crucially, what not to build.
    — Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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