We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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 a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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