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 DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
More Will Durant Quotes
-
-
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANT -
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANT -
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANT -
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANT -
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANT -
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.
WILL DURANT -
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
WILL DURANT -
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANT -
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
WILL DURANT -
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT -
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILL DURANT -
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
WILL DURANT -
We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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 -
Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANT






