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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
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children
These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits
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