Will Durant Quotes

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Will Durant

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• Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • You
  • Me
  • Smile

• When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Police

• The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Important
  • Together
  • Single

• If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Learning
  • Cheating
  • Compensation

• I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!

  

  Byung Hun
  • Lost
  • Looks
  • Weight

• I love what Nick is trying to do. We have a lot of concerns about the sustainability of his approach.

  

  Craig Mundie
  • Trying
  • Approach
  • Concerns

• We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Responsibility
  • Happens
  • Our Lives

• When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Truth
  • Together
  • Relative

• It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.

  

  John C. Danforth
  • Trying
  • Purpose
  • Judgment

• Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Morality
  • Accepted

• There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Heart
  • Moments
  • Longing

• The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

  

  John Wilbanks
  • Broken
  • Opposites

• He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Team
  • Sacrifices
  • Adjustments

• Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Evil

• For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place.

  

  Michelle Gomez
  • Remember
  • Distance
  • Nostalgic

• The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

  

  Scott Spencer
  • People
  • Regret
  • Touch

• Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Awake
  • Careless
  • Racehorse

• Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Joy
  • Heaven
  • Virtue

• It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.

  

  Henry St. John
  • Laws
  • Mistake
  • Politician

• Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

  

  Will Durant
  • Virtue
  • Hatred
  • Wartime