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No, a true seeker could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to find something. But he who had found, could give his approval to every path, to every goal; nothing separated him from all the other thousands who lived in eternity, who breathed the Divine.
Siddhartha
After so many years of foolishness, you have once again had an idea, have done something, have heard the bird in your chest singing and have followed it.
Siddhartha
Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.
Siddhartha
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Siddhartha
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories
Wisdom is the daughter of experience
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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