524 Quotes by Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Consider education not as the painful accumulation of facts and dates and reigns, nor merely the necessary preparation of the individual to earn his keep in the world, but as the transmission of our mental, moral, technical, and aesthetic heritage as fully as possible to as many as possible, for the enlargement of man's understanding, control, embellishment, and enjoyment of life.

For he who can foresee with his mind is by nature intended to be lord and master; and he who can work only with his body is by nature a slave.The slave is to the master what the body is to the mind.

To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education.

What is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with envy, a man seeks to obtain pardon for excellences and merits from those who have none.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

The lazy will always attribute genius to some 'inspiration' that comes for mere waiting.

La educacion es el progresivo descubrimiento de nuestra propia ignorancia.

If you do not want to commit suicide always have something to do." -Voltaire