History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANTSixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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