Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it. -Hermann Hesse

 

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.


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This quote is just one of 16 total Hermann Hesse quotes in our collection. Hermann Hesse is known for saying 'Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.' as well as some of the following quotes.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

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He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature.

Hermann Hesse