George Santayana Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

  George Santayana

  Graduation, Wisdom, Diversity

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

• Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Wise, Wisdom

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.461, 谷月社

• Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

  George Santayana

  Funny, Wisdom, Long

  George Santayana, James Seaton (2014). “Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States: And Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.143, Yale University Press

• Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Men, Intelligence

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.50, Рипол Классик

• Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Understanding, Dignity

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.532, Indiana University Press

• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Change, Wisdom, Memories

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 12 (1905)

• Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Lying, Men

• Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Words Of Wisdom, Disillusionment

• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

  George Santayana

  Love, Beauty, Wisdom

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.30, 谷月社

• The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Roots

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.568, The Floating Press

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