The Importance Of Wisdom In Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha

“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom”(Hesse 124). In the book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse the main protagonist in the story, Siddhartha, goes out on a journey to obtain enlightenment and find what is truly worth it in this world. Throughout his journey he learned more and more things through the interactions with other people that helped him along his journey. These people with the way they acted and did things were able to help teach Siddhartha many things including wisdom. The article by Howard Nusbaum talks about how wisdom can be taught in words and how many things today wouldn’t be as relevant if it wasn’t taught in words. He talks about how through people explaining important things we shall gain understanding and wisdom of

Actions and experiences help a person gain wisdom that can be used in many different situations because they know what they are doing. Words gives us only a basic understanding of wisdom but not enough to the point where we can use it to understand other things in life. You learn from experience and thats how people grow enough to gain wisdom. The first reason as to why wisdom is only learned through actions and experiences is because sometimes your wisdom may come off sounding funny to the person you are trying to explain it to. People may think you are crazy and have no idea what you are talking about. If that happens then people can not hope to understand the wisdom that is trying to be passed on from you. This is seen as Siddhartha as an old man finally reached enlightenment and understood many things thanks to the wisdom he has learned from the many people he has meet from his adventures. When Govinda, an old friend of Siddhartha, hears that their is a sage who ferries

In the article Can Wisdom Be Taught by Words by Howard Nusbaum argues that it can be taught using only words. They assert this argument by saying that wisdom isn’t a skill that is acquired through a lifetime. It is simply just knowing your surroundings and how people and things interact with each other and that most anyone can easily acquire it through proper communication. While they aren’t wrong about communicating it properly, they are wrong about it being that simple. You can’t expect people to always get their point across using just words. There are too many shortcomings in this method. People are not good in getting their point across when using only words and thus needing some sort of visual to show what they are talking about. When people see what somebody is trying to say, they typically are able to understand that thing much easier and this is the case when trying to teach wisdom. There aren’t very many amicable arguments made by the writer on how wisdom can be taught using only