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Unlike knowledge, which is about intellectualizing things instead of finding a deeper meaning, wisdom is working to understand the limits of one\u2019s knowledge. In the novel siddhartha, siddhartha understands that wisdom cannot be taught and can only be gained through experiences such as fear, pain, suffering, and loss (32). The author Herman Hesse, uses the plot to make it Categorically clear that wisdom cannot be imparted. And a person that tries to impart wisdom is not wise. The person appears stupid instead, because unlike knowledge that can be communicated, wisdom cannot. A wise person is one that has found it, lived it, and used it to perform the unimaginable but has not tried to communicate or teach it an endeavor that is futile. Siddhartha after realizing that wisodm is learned individually, he strives to find it through enlightenment and he gets to a level where he can the difference between knowledge and wisdom with Govinda (123-124)<\/p>\n
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Hesse, Hermann, and Stanley Appelbaum. Siddhartha. Courier Corporation, 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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