Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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