3 George Santayana Quotes on Experience

George Santayana quotes on experience

8. The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.

43. A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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