Quotes by Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

“Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day.”

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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

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 revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

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

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

The future never just happened. It was created.