Will Durant

Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew_

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

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.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

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.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.