Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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