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J150 Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge)
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- Wisdom from old person · J151 entry
- Wisdom (knowledge) from sage (teacher) · J152 entry
- Wisdom from holy man · J153 entry
- Wise words of dying father. Counsel proved wise by experience · J154 entry
- Wisdom (knowledge) from women · J155 entry
- Wisdom from fools · J156 entry
- Wisdom (knowledge) from dream · J157 entry
- Wisdom from angel · J158 entry
- Trial rehearsed before stick in the ground as judge · J161 entry
- Wisdom acquired by hanging in a tree · J162 entry
- Wisdom purchased · J163 entry
- Wisdom from God · J164 entry
- Tree of knowledge · J165 entry
- Wisdom from books · J166 entry
- Wisdom from continual reminder of foolishness in the past. Unjust judge skinned and his skin stretched over a footstool kept in the presence of judges, so as to remind them to be just · J167 entry
- Inscription on walls for condensed education · J168 entry
- Proverbial wisdom: counsels. (Cf. B82.6.) · J171 entry
- Account of punishments prepared in hell brings about repentance · J172 entry
- Wisdom taught by suicidal example. Man is ordered by Senate to make tyrant stop bloodshed. He kills himself and family to satiate tyrant of blood · J173 entry
- Good and bad in all books. Author says that a prudent man notes only the good in a vain book; a malicious person, only the bad in a good book · J174 entry
- Wisdom from young man · J175 entry
- Wisdom from evil spirits · J176 entry
- Wisdom from brother-in-law · J177 entry
- Wisdom from robbers (thugs) who disguise selves and show cruel princess how she should treat her husband · J178 entry