Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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