sapientia

First, Hugh introduces the arca as being contained within oneself: "Children, knowledge [sapientia] is a treasury [thesaurus] and your heart is its strongbox [archa]."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Now that science in particular from which proceed the true and evident conclusions of what is right and wrong, and what is good and hurtful to the being and well-being of mankind, the Latins call sapientia, and we by the general name of wisdom.

The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 1650

Note 91: Cicero's description of wisdom as sapientia (from sapere, to taste) represents a deep association between taste and judgment. back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Nescis, mi fili, quantula sapientia gubernatur mundus?

Latin Quotations | Impact Lab 2007

De antiquissima Italorum sapientia ex linguae originibus eruenda librir tres (1710); On the M.st Ancient Wisdom of the Italians Unearthed from the Origins of the Latin Language, including The Disputation with "The Giornale de™ Letterati D'Italia" [1711], translated by L.M. Palmer.

Giambattista Vico Costelloe, Timothy 2008

Two years later his projected but uncompleted statement on metaphysics appeared, De antiquissima Italorum sapientia ex linguae originibus eruenda librir tres (On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians Unearthed from the Origins of the Latin Language).

Giambattista Vico Costelloe, Timothy 2008

How I am to love Him and serve others may have very little to do with human scientiae and sapientia.

Working for the weekend papabear 2008

How I am to love Him and serve others may have very little to do with human scientiae and sapientia.

Archive 2008-09-01 papabear 2008

How I am to love Him and serve others may have very little to do with human scientiae and sapientia.

Archive 2008-08-31 papabear 2008

[2090] Philosophastri licentiantur in artibus, artem qui non habent, [2091] Eosque sapientes esse jubent, qui nulla praediti sunt sapientia, et nihil ad gradum praeterquam velle adferunt.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007