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Knowledge Quotes by George Santayana
- Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They may all collapse altogether.
- When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.
- Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
- A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
- Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
- 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,…
- Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
- Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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