Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTBankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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