Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
More Will Durant Quotes
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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 the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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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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