Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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