Will Durant's Quotes

Will Durant's Quotes 54

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

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

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old...

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

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

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.

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

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little...

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.

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

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis...

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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...

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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