"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
― George Santayana
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Wisdom
― George Santayana
More From George Santayana
- "Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
- "An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
- "Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator."
More In Wisdom
- "When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom."― Shakti Gawain
- "To believe Christ’s cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith."― Samuel Rutherford
- "In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom."― Ezra Stiles