Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTThe ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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