This 20-year-old has also shown his share of worldly wisdom by the end of the story.

The information given about oneself often includes quotations, poetry and worldly wisdom.

"Your parents, my dear, have no more worldly wisdom than a pair of babies."

"It puzzles me to explain how he made all those millions with so little worldly wisdom."

He didn't know a great deal about either, but affected an air of worldly wisdom that had impressed the younger recruits.

An awkward silence was growing, and so she picked up the topic, hoping for some worldly wisdom.

Muslims needed to learn from Europe to regain the worldly wisdom they once possessed.

There is a good deal of laughter, along with what used to be called worldly wisdom.

"If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book."

Each book of the series tells short worldly wisdoms with the intention to make people think.

School It is possible practical and reflective wisdom was transmitted in a house of learning or instruction.

He should have a knowledge of human nature, practical wisdom, and the ability to dictate a good letter.

By 2 a.m., with the consumer population dropping to about 10, I began to question the practical wisdom of the 24-hour policy.

There are elements of practical wisdom, inspiring compassion, even humor.

"Increase of common sense and practical wisdom was a marked result of the new life."

But if you cannot get cream, settle for milk, had always been his practical wisdom.

Once again, we are witnessing the sort of practical wisdom that results from experience.

Plainly, then, practical wisdom is a virtue and not an art.

This is why we say that some even of the lower animals have practical wisdom, viz.

Now practical wisdom is concerned with action; therefore one should have both forms of it, or the latter in preference to the former.