Will Durant Quotes

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

Will Durant

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• My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Want
  • Body

• When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Different
  • Dance
  • Audience

• Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Job
  • American
  • Growth

• The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Family
  • She
  • Job

• What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Day
  • Musicians

• All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Song
  • Negativity
  • Faster

• Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Nature

• Up to a certain time I was cutting into things. Then I realized that the thing I was cutting was the cut. Rather than cut into the material, I now use the material as the cut in space.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Up
  • Time
  • Space

• I can't change the way I am … but if I offended you, good. Cause I still don't give a fuck.

  

  Eminem
  • Good

• But that's what I'm saying to you... That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Every sound perceived by the acute ear in the rhythm of the world about us can be represented musically. Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • People
  • World
  • Wish

• We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Today is different, and tomorrow the same.It's hard to take the world the way that it came.Too many rapids keep us sweeping along.Too many captains keep on steering us wrong.It's hard to take the heat.It's hard to lay blame.To fight the fire, while we're feeding the flames. - Second Nature (1987)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • World
  • Different
  • Nature

• Girl, you don't know what you're puttin' through. It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Business
  • Girl

• I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen … that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

  

  Lucian Freud
  • Picture
  • Painting

• When you play a smaller, more intimate venue, you can have real conversations with your audience, take risks, and stay current. You can also change the set list, on how the day feels or how the audience reacts. When you do arena shows, every arena looks and feels the same. You can't see who is in the room.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Real
  • Risk
  • Audience

• It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way, for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult.

  

  Aristotle
  • Way
  • Reason
  • Difficult

• Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Sad

• Dad wasn’t there much cos he had three or four jobs. First he was away at sea, later on he worked as an insurance salesman in the day and on a building site in the evening.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Dad
  • Sea
  • Insurance

• You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.

  

  Edward Leedskalnin
  • Book
  • Education
  • Write

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

  

  Will Durant
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Desert