Quotes By Author: will durant

“The lazy will always attribute genius to some ‘inspiration’ that comes for mere waiting.”

“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.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”