Quotes By Will Durant

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

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

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.

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

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

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

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

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