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“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.”

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Hermann Hesse was a German poet and novelist, born on July 2, 1877, and died on August 9, 1962. Known for his profound psychological descriptions and exploration of human nature, his works include classics such as 'Steppenwolf' and 'The Glass Bead Game'. more

“You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.”

Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

“"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.”

Inspirational Education Teacher Failing Blow Best Things Devastated Puff Teaching And Education Being Sad Teaching Education Sewers Best Education

Author:T. H. White

“Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.”

Problem Knowledge Clear Management Sacred Milk Cows Horns Sacred Cows

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.”

Games Knowledge Youth Damage Owners Shotguns

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.”

Men Fall Knowledge Errors

Author:Austin O'Malley

“The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.”

Knows Known Knowledge

Book:Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter

Source: Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter

“Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.”

Men Littles Has Beens Light Order Knowledge Gone Taught Please Intellectual Acquire Self Knowledge

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.”

Men Book Soul Body Sound Knowledge Study Figures Philosopher Mathematician Subtlety

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

“The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.”

Knowledge Simplicity Complicated Endless Primaries Operations

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

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