We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTThe love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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