Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The wisest mind has something yet to learn. "

George Santayana

Related Quotes:

" Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. "

George Santayana

" I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. "

George Santayana

" One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. "

George Santayana

" Oaths are the fossils of piety. "

George Santayana

" Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. "

George Santayana

" Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. "

George Santayana

" The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. "

George Santayana

" The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. "

George Santayana

" Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. "

George Santayana

" Depression is rage spread thin. "

George Santayana

" Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. "

George Santayana

" Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. "

George Santayana

" To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. "

George Santayana

" The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. "

George Santayana

" It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well. "

George Santayana

" Habit is stronger than reason. "

George Santayana

" America is a young country with an old mentality. "

George Santayana

" The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. "

George Santayana

" It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. "

George Santayana

" A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. "

George Santayana

" Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. "

George Santayana

" Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. "

George Santayana

" Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. "

George Santayana

" It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. "

George Santayana

" Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. "

George Santayana

" Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. "

George Santayana

" That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. "

George Santayana

" Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. "

George Santayana

" Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. "

George Santayana

" Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. "

George Santayana