Selected quotes · 17
№ 01
“The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.”
Will DurantLove
№ 02
“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”
Will DurantWisdom
№ 03
“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.”
Will DurantWisdom
№ 04
“Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.”
Will DurantFreedom
№ 05
“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”
Will DurantCourage
№ 06
“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 DurantFreedom
№ 07
“The family is the nucleus of civilization.”
Will DurantWisdom
№ 08
“There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.”
Will DurantFreedom
№ 09
“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”
Will DurantGrowth
№ 10
“Education is the transmission of civilization.”
Will DurantWisdom
№ 11
“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”
Will DurantGrowth
№ 12
“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”
Will DurantAction
№ 13
“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
Will DurantCreativity
№ 14
“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Will DurantGrowth
№ 15
“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”
Will DurantPhilosophy
№ 16
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Will DurantGrowth
№ 17
“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.”
Will DurantTime