Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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