Hermann Hesse Quotes

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.