Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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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 speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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