The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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