Siddhartha Blog

In the book Siddhartha there are lots of great thoughts which can help throughout your life, I believe that one of the most important thinkings of Siddhartha in the book is that wisdom can not be taught, only knowledge can be shared. "'Are you jesting?' asked Govinda. 'No, I am telling you what I have discorvered. Knowledge can be communicated , but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.'"(p. 142) When Siddhartha explains this to Govinda he cant grasp it all at once, but it makes perfect sense that wisdom is found and gained by taking in and learning knowledge overtime. To have wisdom as a man, gaining knowledge that is taught by another is not the only key. "But one cannot love words. Therefore teachings are of no use to me; they have no hardness, no softness, nor colors, no corners, no smell, no taste-they have nothing but words."(p. 146) Siddhartha truly believes that words are a poor way of gaining knowledge and not enough to find peace especially by others trying to teach it. You have to realize yourself over the time to love things that may seem meaningless then this wisdom will come.