English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Will Durant Quotes

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.

Will Durant

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous! Terry Goodkind
Robert Klein quote: "I was a class clown."
I was a class clown. Robert Klein
Richard Whately quote: "It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably..."
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. Richard Whately
I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy. Michael Biehn
Lily Tomlin quote: "Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was."
Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was. Lily Tomlin
Virginia Woolf quote: "I am the foam that sweeps and fills the uttermost rims of the..."
I am the foam that sweeps and fills the uttermost rims of the rocks with whiteness; I am also a girl, here in this room. Virginia Woolf
You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated. Michel Foucault
An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood. She did not sit there inwardly upbraiding her husband, lamenting at Fate, which had directed her footsteps to the path which they had taken. She was just having a good cry all to herself. Kate Chopin
And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode. Ben Quayle
When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy. Paul Walker
Kim Kardashian quote: "I do rely on having a full face on."
I do rely on having a full face on. Kim Kardashian
Terry Southern quote: "It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda."
It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda. Terry Southern
Mother Teresa quote: "The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is..."
The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love. Mother Teresa
Jay Chiat quote: "It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people..."
It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well. Jay Chiat
Jerry Hall quote: "We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting..."
We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression. Jerry Hall