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“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
― Siddhartha
“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known--not long ago the adolescent in me thought death could happen only to other people), I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
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