Why is wisdom associated with the owl?
Maybe because they are supposed to have large eyes and somehow wisdom is connected to sight. So if you can see more you have more wisdom. Indeed the early roots of the English word wisdom are related to watching and our current definition does have the connotation of seeing with the "mind's eye".
Wisdom and knowledge are connected to seeing past or beyond what is superficially apparent, seeing the real beneath or behind the visible or pulling out the abstract.
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