Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTHistory is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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