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Danh ngôn của Will Durant (Sứ mệnh: 8)

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.