George Santayana Quotes

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

I don't think a lot of people really know what goes into something that they see.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

If you don't know about it, you can't get it.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

I like to open people's eyes.

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.