“Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.”

— Anthony de Mello

Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 53

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Anthony de Mello135

Indian writer 1931–1987

Harold Geneen (1910–1997) American businessman

Managing, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 99.

“The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.”

Vin Scully (1927) American sports broadcaster

Commenting on Kenley Jansen's first pitching appearance in the MLB on July 24, 2010

“They are learned by the constant use of the language and cannot be taught in any other fashion.”

Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist

Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
Context: Mathematics, being very different from the natural languages, has its corresponding patterns of thought. Learning these patterns is much more important than any particular result... They are learned by the constant use of the language and cannot be taught in any other fashion.

“Competencies can be communicated — and therefore can be taught and learned.”

Dave Ulrich (1953) American academic

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“All the learned men with all their wisdom, with all of the legal niceties they can put together on the finest of parchment, cannot produce one ton of steel.”

Walter Reuther (1907–1970) Labor union leader

1940s, Address accepting the Presidency of the CIO (1952)
Just sit down on a doorstep with a peasant in a village of Northern India and take on the task of trying to explain to him why America, conceived in freedom and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, a nation that can split the atom, that can make a pursuit ship go three times as fast as sound and yet, in this twentieth century, we can't live together in brotherhood and we continue to discriminate against Negroes. It will tax your ingenuity, and you will give them no answers. You can only give them excuses. And excuses are not good enough, if we are going to win the struggle of freedom in the world.
Source: Address accepting the Presidency of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Atlantic City, New Jersey, December 4, 1952, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 51