Will Durant Quotes
As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
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Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
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It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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That is one of the things that has come out of the discovery of pulsars - more knowledge about the space between the stars.
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Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.
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Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
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If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.