![]() “The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.” “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” “The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!” “The highest form of wisdom is kindness.” “The crow wished everything was black, the owl, that everything was white.” Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat others use the hours of daylight. “Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground others do not. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. “Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water-ousel sings in the voice of the stream. ![]() “Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.” One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.” Apparently, it’s a combination of being wise and having big eyes.” Mastering others is strength mastering yourself is true power.” “Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. These are the things which help a world come alive.” How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.” “It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. “In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.” The first half of the day, you might not catch me.” I probably go to sleep during the time when most people wake up. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.” “I’m a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. “I’m a bit of a night owl because that’s when I feel the most creative and alive.” “If there are no nightingales, one must settle for owls.” “I think I’m a tiny bit like Harry ‘cos I’d like to have an owl. I always have been… and I’d like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.” At night the owls made of it an echoing throat by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.” “his tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. “Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl.” “Do not trap yourself into an owl’s hooting sound/where sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound?” If there were werewolves around, I’d be likely to run into them, being the night owl that I am.” “Being a nocturnal creature myself, I often find myself in dark alleys or strange places late at night. “At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.” “An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.” “A wise old owl sat on an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard Why aren’t we like that wise old bird.” “A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.” ![]() A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.” “A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. “A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.” These quotes about wise owls demonstrate how being observant and patient can unlock many unseen things.
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