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George Santayana Quotes

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

George Santayana

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: spanish
Birth: December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952

Topics

Education Great Experience Ideas Out

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

Dreams Dream Sound Scent Colour Few

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

John Mason Brown

Good Someone Remember Said Who Says

Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them.

Simon Winchester

Live Beautiful People Choose Why

I'm a sneaker head. You'll find more sneakers than heels in my closet.

You Find Sneakers More Heels Head

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

Good Children Parenting World Think

I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.

Opportunity I Am People Learn Giving

I've just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Eyes Myself You I Can Open See

I've played at the Comedy Studio. I never did as an undergrad, but I have in recent years, whenever I've gone back to anything at Harvard, I've tried to go there and do some sets.

Comedy Back Go Never Anything Gone

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Bryant H. McGill

Courtesy More Who Basic Than He

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

Mother People Blood Jewish Tell Jew

'Rolling Stone' had started something called 'Outside,' and since I was one of two people in the office that liked going outside, I was pegged to work on it. The concept of the magazine was simple: literate writing about the out-of-doors. I jumped at the opportunity.

Work Opportunity Simple People Stone

A college degree was very important for them; it wasn't for me. So I picked English because I'm fluent. I thought it would be the easiest to do.

College Me Thought Important Degree

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