Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTWe are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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