Hunger Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hunger Philosophy Wisdom
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. — Lactantius Copy Share Image
Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
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You get those hunger pains. 'I am so hungry. We don't have any food. What are we going to eat?' Your stomach hurts. Then… — Ben McLemore Copy Share Image
'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The Panem country… — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
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“This, then, was hunger. This was what his mother had meant when she had said, "We'll all go hongry." He had laughed, for he… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
We did a 'Vanity Fair' spread for 'The Hunger Games,' and we were on set, and I saw a little head pop up from… — Alexander Ludwig Copy Share Image