We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTSixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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