All Will Durant Quotes
- We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. Broadway
- Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. Education
- Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Discovery
- 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… All
- To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. Art
- 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… Clever
- The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. Acting
- The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Acting
- Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. Change
- How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself. Caused
- The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether… America
- Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. Certainty
- Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. Achievement
- Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle. Bitter
- When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship. Begets
- by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them Implement
- Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come… Begin
- In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. Distance
- And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave… Aside
- Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day Business