“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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“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.”
HistoryAll Quotes by 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.”
Age“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”
Art“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.”
Government“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”
Hope“Education is the transmission of civilization.”
Education“The family is the nucleus of civilization.”
Family“History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.”
History“Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.”
Truth“Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.”
History“Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Education“Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.”
Freedom“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
Art“We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.”
Freedom“There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.”
War“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”
Knowledge“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”
Knowledge“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”
Change“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”
Knowledge“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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