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

Will Durant

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Will Durant

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Will Durant

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Will Durant

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Will Durant

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

Will Durant

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Will Durant

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

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

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Will Durant

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

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Will Durant

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Will Durant

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

Will Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Will Durant

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Will Durant

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Will Durant