Will Durant Famous Quotes
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
"The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate."
The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song."
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos."
Will Durant Quotations
"...desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will take you through."
Starhawk
It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
David Harris
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please."
Pythagoras
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford
"I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.
Robin Quivers
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy."
Charles Langbridge Morgan
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong."
Bill Vaughan