Edward Thurlow Quotes

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

Nature is perfect.

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.

Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

The least foolish is wise.

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

When facts speak, the wise man listens.