We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTHistory is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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