Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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