"Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

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 ~












Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond...
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