Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTThe love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANTScience gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTSixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTIt may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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