Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTA statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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