Historian Quotes: Timeless Insights and Reflections (Page 5)

"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty"

Tacitus, Historian

"In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous"

Tacitus, Historian

"A bad peace is even worse than war"

Tacitus, Historian

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise"

Tacitus, Historian

"Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from"

Tacitus, Historian

"Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it"

Tacitus, Historian

"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure"

Tacitus, Historian

"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again"

Tacitus, Historian

"When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near"

Will Durant, Historian

"Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory"

Will Durant, Historian

"If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous"

Will Durant, Historian

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

Will Durant, Historian

"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

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