
“We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
Book I, Ch. 25
Attributed
Siddhartha (1922)
Context: Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
“We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
Book I, Ch. 25
Attributed
“Both knowledge and wisdom extend man's reach. Knowledge led to computers, wisdom to chopsticks.”
The Synthesis of Algorithmic Systems, 1966
Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). p. 365.
Quotes from secondary sources
Decisions http://byub.org/findatalk/details.asp?ID=4343 BYU Devotional, February 6, 1977.
1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)
“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
Source: The Complete Essays