Durant, Will

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."

"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order." - quoted in Time

"No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised." - The Life of Greece