Will Durant's Quotes

Will Durant's Quotes 26

There have been only 268 of the past 3 421 years free of war.

Truth always originates in a minority of one and every custom begins as a...

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time but you can...

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

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

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

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

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or...

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a...

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and...

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is...

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and...

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a...

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Civilization exists by geological consent subject to change without notice.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the...

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

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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