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Will Durant


American
November 5, 1885
Historian
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.


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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.


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


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Tags: Say Nothing Art
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.


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


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


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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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 country.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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