Posterity Quotes · Page 4

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

— Jean Paul

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

— Denis Diderot

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

— Madame de Stael

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else

— Heywood C Broun

We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.

— Shunroku Hata

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

— Patrick Henry

Ultimately, the appraisal of Grant's presidency rests upon posterity's view of Reconstruction.

— Ron Chernow

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“David Foster Wallace understood the paradox of attempting to write fiction that spoke to posterity and a contemporary audience simultaneously,”

— David Foster Wallace

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of…

— Abraham Lincoln

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those…

— Rene Descartes

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

— Edmund Burke

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of…

— Anonymous

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

— Gerald R. Ford

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shudder; and we may…

— Mark Twain

Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse…

— Washington Irving

“What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to…

— Irvine Welsh

Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more…

— Robert Menzies

“Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the…

— Marcel Duchamp

“What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing…

— Lord Byron

[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.…

— George Washington

Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place…

— Robert E. Lee

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very…

— Lord Byron

The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.…

— Marcel Duchamp

“Not for an instant did he flinch from the mere fact of dying to-day…To die ‘untimely,’ as men called it, was the…

— Max Beerbohm

“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none…

— Charles Spalding Thomas

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a…

— Ben Jonson

The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in…

— David Brewster

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

— Thomas Gray

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

— Tacitus

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

— Anonymous

Forests are precious resources of the country and a wealth to be handed down to posterity.

— Kim Jong-un

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

— Louis Pasteur

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

— Seneca the Younger

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

— Henry David Thoreau

“After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.”

— George Ade