Historian Quotes: Timeless Insights and Reflections (Page 5)

"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice"

Will Durant, Historian

"As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy"

Will Durant, Historian

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

Will Durant, Historian

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds"

Will Durant, Historian

"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance"

Will Durant, Historian

"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife"

Will Durant, Historian

"The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages"

Will Durant, Historian

"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions"

Will Durant, Historian

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

Will Durant, Historian

"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art"

Will Durant, Historian

"The family is the nucleus of civilization"

Will Durant, Historian

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say"

Will Durant, Historian

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"

Will Durant, Historian

"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"

Will Durant, Historian

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

Will Durant, Historian

"Education is the transmission of civilization"

Will Durant, Historian

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

Will Durant, Historian

"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul"

Will Durant, Historian

"Inquiry is fatal to certainty"

Will Durant, Historian

"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order"

Will Durant, Historian

"I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income"

Will Durant, Historian

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

Will Durant, Historian

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

Will Durant, Historian

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

Will Durant, Historian

"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"

Will Durant, Historian

"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity"

Will Durant, Historian

"A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist"

Will Durant, Historian

"No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor"

Tacitus, Historian

"It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt"

Tacitus, Historian

"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it"

Tacitus, Historian

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