Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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