Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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