Quote

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

Will Durant

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
Art
Nothing
Diplomats
Diplomacy
Speaking
Communication
Especially
Half

More quotes by Will Durant

Image
Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
Will Durant
Image
Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
Will Durant
Image
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
Will Durant
Image
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Will Durant
Image
History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
Will Durant
Image
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
Will Durant
Image
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
Image
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
Will Durant
Image
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
Will Durant
Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
Will Durant
Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
Will Durant
Image
There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
Will Durant
Image
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
Image
Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
Will Durant
Image
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
Image
In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
Will Durant
Image
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Will Durant
Image
Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
Will Durant
Image
So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
Will Durant
Image
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
Will Durant