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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. ↗

— Plato

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. ↗

— Plautus

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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. ↗

— Plato

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. ↗

— Plautus

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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. ↗

— Plutarch

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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. ↗

— Jane Porter

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Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. ↗

— Francis Quarles

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At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#landscape #life #nature #wisdom #beauty