Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTHistory is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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