Hermann Hesse Quotes

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

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

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

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

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

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

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

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

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

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.