Will Durant Quotes

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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Education is the transmission of civilization.

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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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