Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Quote by George Santayana

Topics: Common Sense Quotes

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to...

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to...

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or...

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or...

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what...

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what...

Habit is stronger than reason

Habit is stronger than reason

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear...

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear...

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part...

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part...

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could...

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could...

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

There is no dunce like a mature dunce

There is no dunce like a mature dunce

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.