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.

Quote by Will Durant

Topics: Death And Dying Quotes, Wonder Quotes

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken...

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken...

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an...

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an...

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will...

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will...

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near

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

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

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes...

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes...

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the...

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the...

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his...

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his...

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Learning is the discovery that something is possible

Learning is the discovery that something is possible

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably...

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably...

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.