Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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 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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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