Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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