Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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