Will Durant Quotes

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Education, Ignorance, Discovery

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.
Will Durant

Time, Fool, True

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.
Will Durant

Good, Nothing, Others

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

Change, Subject, Exists

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
Will Durant

Political, Acting, Against

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant

Hope, Rather, Minds

The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Will Durant

Family, Nucleus

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant

Age, Great, Freedom

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Will Durant

May, Become, Hatred

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

Time, Tired, Find

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

Good, History, Nothing

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

War, Past, Free

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.
Will Durant

Sure, Needs, Thinks

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Will Durant

Art, Science, Philosophy

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Will Durant

Liberty, Near, Becomes

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Will Durant

Love, Wife, Old

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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Time, Last, Spend

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

Knowledge, Science, Wisdom

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

Art, Nothing, Half

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

Knowledge, Soul, Become

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

Government, Principle, Basic

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.
Will Durant

Life, Human, Him

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Will Durant

Certainty, Inquiry, Fatal

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Will Durant

Moral, Themselves, Conditions

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: November 5, 1885

Died: November 7, 1981

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