Will Durant

Quotes

• “The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”
• “The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.”
• “Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.”
• “Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”
• “To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
• “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”