Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTIn 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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