Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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 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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