Hermann Hesse Quotes

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

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

The wise are above books.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Information is not knowledge.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Nobody is born wise.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

I think with experience and age, you gain knowledge and wisdom.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.