Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTWe Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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