Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Quote by Will Durant

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or...

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or...

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often...

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often...

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...

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

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

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Men forget that a value judgment has a raison d'Ãªtre only as a preparation for...

Men forget that a value judgment has a raison d'Ãªtre only as a preparation for...

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you...

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to...

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...

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and...

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and...

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...

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the...

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the...

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not...

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not...

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who...

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who...

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient...

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient...

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to...

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to...

Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods

Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods