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Category: Will Durant

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

Wisdom, Science, Philosophy

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

Ignorance, Desert, Expanding

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

Eye, Soul, Desire

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

Money, Wise, Man

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

Time, Years, Little

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

Prejudice, Rest, Guessing

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.

Freedom, Stress, Great

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Art, Philosophy, Ends

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

Independence, Never

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

Art, Nothing, Diplomacy

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Man, Youth, Wife

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

Past, Free, Years