Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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