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What's the quote? Knowledge can be taught. Wisdom can't be taught or told... it can only be learned through experience?

Edit: Ah, found it.

"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it." - Siddhartha



"Wisdom can't be taught or told... it can only be learned through experience"

I recently had the thought, that good education guides you to certain experiences to really learn the subject and not memorize some definitions.


Problem is that people learn the wrong things from their experiences, not that they lack the experiences.


The way I was told it: "Knowledge is knowing it's a one-way street. Wisdom is learning to look both ways anyway."




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