An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

About This Quote

This quote is by the philosopher and writer George Santayana (1863-1952). He was a Spanish-born, American philosopher and essayist who also taught at Harvard University. He is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Santayana’s view on information, a classic in philosophy, has a lot to say about how we disseminate information and what happens when we receive misinformation.

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