Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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