Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTNature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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