"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One……" — Hermann Hesse

"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

— Hermann Hesse

397 Quotes by Hermann Hesse

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What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into…
Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all…
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing…
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real…
Words can not express the joy of new life.
The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and…
Happiness is love, nothing else.
Love is stronger than violence.

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Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate. — Niklas Luhmann
The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to… — Dainin Katagiri
The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved. — Iris Murdoch
You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to… — Andy Stanley
If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of… — Harry Blamires
The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that… — Jessamyn West
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard… — Simone Weil
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which… — Carrie Snow
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