Will Durant Quotes & Sayings
42 most famous Will Durant quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American historian who passed away on 7 November, 1981.
“The family is the nucleus of civilization.”
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
“Education is the transmission 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.”
“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”
“The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.”
“Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.”
“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”
“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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