Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTTruth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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