Will Durant Quotes

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Will Durant

Profession : Historian

Birth : November 5, 1885

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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.

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

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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.

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

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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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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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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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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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

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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

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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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