Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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