1. Education, with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out, punctuated by textbooks----those purchasable wells of wisdom----what would civilization be like without its benefits?
    教育，以其教学周期如此精心地安排，并以教科书 -- 那些可以买到的智慧源泉 -- 予以强化，如果不受其惠，文明将会是个什么样子呢？

2. But the most important argument for a broad education is that in studying the accumulated wisdom of the ages, we improve our moral sense.
    但是赞成宽泛教育的最重要的理由是, 在学习世世代代积累起来的知识的同时，我们也提高了自己的道德感。

3. But the wisdom of that policy has been questioned as the amount of violence encountered by the police has grown.
    但是随着警察遭遇的暴力事件逐渐增多，人们对这一做法是否明智提出了疑问。

4. Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
    胸中有知识，胜于手中有金钱。

5. Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it .
    为了求知识，代价虽高也值得。

6. Since he and his kind are the only representatives of decency comblined with wisdom.
    既然他和象他那样的人是正派兼聪慧的唯一化身，

7. Philosophers by selling wisdom and priests by selling spiritual comfort.
    哲学家靠卖智慧为生，牧师靠卖精神安慰为生。

8. Let us consider the wisdom of following his advice.
    让我们考虑按他的意见做是否明智。

9. It is equally true that, in studying the diverse wisdom of others, we learn how to think.
    同样确实的还有, 我们在了解他人的各种各样的智慧时，自己也学会了如何去思考。