Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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