To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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