The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTScience gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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 living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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