Author: Will Durant

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

- Will Durant

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

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 a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

- Will Durant

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

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

- Will Durant

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

- Will Durant

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.

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

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