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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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

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

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

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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

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

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

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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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

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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

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

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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Education is the transmission of civilization.

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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.

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

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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

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The family is the nucleus of civilization.

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

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

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

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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

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

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

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

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

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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

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

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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

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