2 Metaphors for wiseman

It does not necessarily follow, however, that every Mr. Wiseman is a sage.

Mr. Newman felt and admitted them, and of course they were forced on his attention by controversialists on both sides; by the Ultra Protestant school, whose modes of dealing with Scripture he had exposed with merciless logic and by the now eager Roman disputants, of whom Dr. Wiseman was the able and not over-scrupulous chief.

2 Metaphors for  wiseman