Logo
Quote by George Santayana
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. - George Santayana

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. – George Santayana

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Knowledge
Author
George Santayana
Read Quote

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

Category:
Fear
Author
George Santayana
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Wisdom
category

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. – Aeschylus

Category:
Wisdom

The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. – Christopher Lasch

Category:
Wisdom

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – H. L. Mencken

Category:
Wisdom

I always see where I didnt do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. Thats a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that. – Vera Wang

Category:
Wisdom

Random Quotes

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. – William Butler Yeats

Category:
best

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. – Carl Sandburg

Category:
Future

I think I jump around more when Im alone. – Nicolas Cage

Category:
alone

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Common Sense