Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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