Will Durant - Knowledge Quotes

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Science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life.

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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

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

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And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

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

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Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.

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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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