Author: Will Durant

Quotes

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

- Will Durant

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- 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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

- Will Durant

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

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

- 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

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