When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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