Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTThe 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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