Hermann Hesse Quotes

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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

The wise are above books.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

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

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

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.