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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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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.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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