Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
More Will Durant Quotes
-
-
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANT -
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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 -
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANT -
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANT -
Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANT -
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANT -
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANT -
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANT -
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANT -
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANT -
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANT -
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.
WILL DURANT -
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANT -
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANT