Quotes of Will Durant - somelinesforyou

“ Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. ”

- Will Durant

“ Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power. ”

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“ The family is the nucleus of civilization. ”

- Will Durant

“ Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ”

- Will Durant

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

- Will Durant

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

- Will Durant

“ History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. ”

- Will Durant

“ History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all. ”

- Will Durant

“ The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. ”

- Will Durant

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

- Will Durant

“ In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war. ”

- Will Durant

“ Education is the transmission of civilization. ”

- Will Durant

“ Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ”

- Will Durant

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

- Will Durant

“ The family is the nucleus of civilization. ”

- Will Durant

“ Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ”

- Will Durant

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

- Will Durant

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

- Will Durant

“ Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ”

- Will Durant

“ 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 both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. ”

- Will Durant

“ اما هر کار می‌کنی، از فلسفه نمیر. ”

- Will Durant

“ Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. ”

- Will Durant

“ 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 both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. ”

- Will Durant

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

- Will Durant

“ Traditions and dogmas rub one another down to a minimum in such centers of varied intercourse; where there are a thousand faiths we are apt to become sceptical of them all. ”

- Will Durant

“ Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ”

- Will Durant

“ 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 both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. ”

- Will Durant

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

- Will Durant

“ Great men speak to us only so far as we have ears and souls to hear them; only so far as we have in us the roots, at least, of that which flowers out in them. ”

- Will Durant

“ La educacion es el progresivo descubrimiento de nuestra propia ignorancia. ”

- Will Durant
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