Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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