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.
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My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
—Lauren Green, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
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Prevailing wisdom tells us rookie cards are the most valuable collectible.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 7 July 2026
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But Russert says wisdom can help the political news landscape.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 1 July 2026
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Your experiences and words of wisdom will be shared in installments of the newsletter.
—Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 8 July 2026
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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
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Books used to be an essential source of knowledge, memory, wisdom, and morality.
—Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
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There are also skills from having wisdom and experience that also matter.
—Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 30 June 2026
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An astonishing wealth of information and wisdom has been bequeathed to us.
—Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
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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
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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
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In a time when leadership is often associated with force, Odysseus reminds us that wisdom can be more powerful.
—Theodore McDarrah, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
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There’s something magical—and reliable—about the wisdom of generations past.
—Shagun Khare, Martha Stewart, 7 July 2026
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The Bible’s message was seen as not only informative but salvific, and the monastic who memorized its words filled his or her soul with divine wisdom.
—Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
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The paradox of Tibetan Buddhism is this blending of secular wisdom and mystical rite.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026
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Like any good Sheridan show, gratuitous violence and clichéd wisdom are doled out with abandon, the spoonful of sugar to help the medicine—in this case ranching gone awry—go down.
—Alex Jhamb Burns, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 July 2026
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Common wisdom also held that birthmarks were caused by the mother’s experience during pregnancy.
—Katherine Ott, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
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Nobody sneered at authority and received wisdom more than Johnny Rotten.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 July 2026
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In a world where AI makes competent output cheap and abundant, the differentiator becomes the wisdom to know what’s worth doing at all.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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Traditional baseball wisdom suggests orthodoxy in the ninth inning.
—Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 11 July 2026
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Zendaya as Athena The goddess of wisdom and war, Athena watches over Odysseus throughout his journey and shares brief but impactful scenes with him.
—Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
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These could be around your beliefs and spirituality, academics and wisdom, media endeavors, or even breakthroughs around legal matters.
—Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 12 July 2026
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Uranus sextile Neptune is outlining a deeper cultural transition in the way people create meaning, share wisdom and imagine progress.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
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Zendaya joins The Odyssey in the role of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, warfare, and handicraft, who serves as a guardian over Odysseus on his journey.
—Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
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On TikTok or Instagram, a gesture once used to symbolize doctrine or wisdom starts to look like confidence, coolness, even swagger.
—Denva Gallant, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
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The Challengers actress plays Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and war, in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey.
—Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026
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