Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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