Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
WILL DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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