Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTIn 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
-
-
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
WILL DURANT -
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANT -
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANT -
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANT -
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT -
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANT -
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANT -
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANT -
It 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 DURANT -
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
WILL DURANT -
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
WILL DURANT -
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.
WILL DURANT -
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANT -
Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANT -
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANT