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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana
Graduation, Wisdom, Diversity
George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

George Santayana
Wisdom, Words Of Wisdom, Disillusionment

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

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

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

George Santayana
Wisdom, Lying, Men

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

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)

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

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

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