Will Durant Quotes

• 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.

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  Topics in Age, Funny, Youth

  Tags in Old

• 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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  Topics in History

  Tags in Silence

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dreams, Hope, Reason

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dishonest, Praising

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

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  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Give, School

• I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

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  Topics in Wedding

  Tags in Marriages, Hasty

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Especially, Half
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  Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.

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  Topics in Failure, Mistake

  Tags in Expect

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

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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• When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

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  Tags in Dictatorship, Near

• Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

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  Tags in Faster

• We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

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  Tags in Twenty-Four, Informed

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

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  Tags in Penetrates, Spanking

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

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  Tags in Precedent, Originates

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

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  Tags in Receding, Mirage

• 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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  Tags in Twenty-Four, Thousand

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

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  Tags in Declaration, Independence

• A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

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  Tags in Statesman, Afford

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

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  Tags in Hoard, Wise Man

Will Durant (46)

Birth:	5th November, 1885
Death:	7th November, 1981
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian, Philosopher, Teacher, Writer

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