Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.
But being intelligent, if in fact any test can measure intelligence accurately, does not guarantee wisdom.
Wisdom is not a function of what resources you have, wisdom is how you use the resources you have.
These numbers contradict not just conventional wisdom but also the registration figures from states like California.
Early in the Cold War, Einstein warned of the danger of our wisdom not keeping pace with our technology.
Maison Souvannaphoum had the wisdom not to sacrifice the genuine for the genteel.
He may not have any management wisdom to share, but he might have an interesting perspective.
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Yet, astonishingly, this elementary wisdom has not yet penetrated the American and European bureaucracies that keep churning out lengthy international arms-control treaties.
In an election sure to be about strength of voter turn-out, it may not, as conventional wisdom instructs, be all about the economy after all.
In the fullness of time, they say, their labours are likely to add not just to the wisdom of mankind but also to their own country's economic well-being.
And it is from there, from how well we as leaders see our workplace, that we can begin to appreciate the wisdom of not achieving as a valuable perspective.
Labeling something as best practices is not a substitute for wisdom, discernment, discretion, subject matter expertise, intellect, creativity or any of the other qualities I value in an advisor.
Since gold has not followed the conventional wisdom that gold goes up when risk goes up, it further validates the four steps outlined in the prior article to make money in gold.
Conventional wisdom and not-supposed-tos exist for a reason.
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At the same time, opponents of appeasement - those who had warned of the dangers of the Oslo process and had spoken out against the withdrawal from Lebanon and a potential withdrawal from the Golan Heights and Gaza - were not congratulated for their wisdom.
Goode said he was not swayed by the conventional wisdom that the Strip had been overbuilt.
It does tend to go against conventional wisdom somewhat, not least because there is also the risk of injury.
It is not inhabited by exemplars of wisdom and virtue transcending the human frailties that befall the rest of us.
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Perhaps his story is more powerful because you're not only taking in his wisdom, but you are experiencing his death.
But it is not true, as conventional wisdom holds, that Mr Gore gains nothing from his action because Cubans all vote Republican anyway.
Operationally, not very, conventional spook wisdom suggested.
You know, the people who I meet now that I find most inspiring who are successful I think are people who are not only willing to work very hard but are constantly trying to improve themselves and to think in new ways, and not just accept the conventional wisdom.
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By Saturday, however, he wanted the American people to know that he was not commenting on "the wisdom" of putting such a mosque by that hallowed ground - just "the right" of its backers like Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to do it, pursuant to the Constitution's protection of religious freedom.
If that occurs, I will owe my clients an apology for not jumping on the conventional wisdom and will have no excuse for our miserable 8.7% to 10.3% returns of our balanced portfolios when the gold and real estate weights would have out-performed by about 2% to 3.5%, if history repeats itself like our worst inflationary spike.
Again, against prevailing wisdom, they may not be proficient (or even familiar) with the tasks of the team.
Contrary to the prevailing wisdom, this is not a temporary alliance of convenience among three otherwise unrelated states.
Our interest is not only to study his investment wisdom, but to decode how the man makes a deal.
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At that point, all the pearls of Russian literature may not provide western policymakers with enough wisdom to limit the damage.
The point is, conventional wisdom says it should not exist at all.
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