Friday, July 02, 2010

Thought for the day ...

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, born on this date in 1877

2 comments:

  1. I couldn't disagree more. Wisdom is a cognitive approach, and so one becomes wise like one becomes other things, by theory and practice.

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  2. Susan B.5:42 PM

    I think it's a great quote, esp. as I have two young adult children.

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