Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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