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Will Durant

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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Quoted in "Books: The Great Gadfly", Time magazine, 8 October 1965 (review of The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant)

 
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