"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy." ― George Santayana Topic(s): Wisdom Tags: facile, hunger, wisdom More From George Santayana "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." "The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise." "We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible." More In Wisdom "He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass."― Edgar R. Fiedler "Wisdom is learning what to overlook."― William James "Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."― Anne Bradstreet