Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTIt 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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