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Will Durant Quotes

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

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Type:
Historian Quotes
Category:
American Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
November 5, 1885
Date of Death:
November 7, 1981
Nationality:
American
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Select Will Durant Quotations:
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Will Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

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

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
Will Durant

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


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Became, Free, Law, Man, Recognized, Subject
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Truth always originates in a minority...
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We are living in the excesses...
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Woe to him who teaches men...

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