Will Durant Quotes

Biography: Will Durant is known for his comprehensive work, "The Story of Civiliz... more Biography: Will Durant is known for his comprehensive work, "The Story of Civilization." Born in 1885, Durant was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. Along with his wife, Ariel, he dedicated decades to crafting a multi-volume historical series, making complex ideas accessible to a broad audience. less

"The family is the nucleus of civilization.""We have underestimated the ignorance of the masses.""No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.""The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.""A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean.""Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now""A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within""Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art""History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.""We teach more by what we are than by what we teach""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""To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy""Science gives us knowledge but only philosophy can give us wisdom""The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife""Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos""Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance""We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit""The future never just happened. It was created""Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."

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