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«Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship,
Learning
| Keywords:
a little, become, Be a Player, courtesies, courtesy, Friends, game, Game On, gaming, get in the game, helpful, his rule, laugh, laugh at, learn, listen, little, modesty, My Game, not only, objectivity, Other games, players, rules, Rules of, rule by, rule out, The Game of Life, The Rules, through, with modesty
«Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
ago, discovery, Discovery of, ignorance, knew, know nothing, of our own, our own, progressive, Progressives, sixty, The Progressive
«Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom»
«It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.»
«Education is the transmission of civilization.»
«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.»
«The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Wonder
| Keywords:
bothered, Last Day, raises, wonders
«Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.»
«Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Education,
Ignorance
| Keywords:
discovery, Discovery of, of our own, progressive, Progressives, The Progressive
«Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art»
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