Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTA statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
More Will Durant Quotes
-
-
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
WILL DURANT -
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANT -
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANT -
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANT -
Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANT -
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANT -
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.
WILL DURANT -
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT -
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANT -
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILL DURANT -
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANT -
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
WILL DURANT -
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANT -
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
WILL DURANT -
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANT