Age Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.

— Geoff Nicholson

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death…

— Gertrude Stein

“A hundred years of scholarly thinking has stretched back a million-fold the age of the Earth. But these same diviners, antiquarians and scholars are…

— Doris Lessing

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

— Robert Kiyosaki

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until…

— Carroll Quigley

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

— Gertrude Atherton

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a…

— Henry Miller

The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them.

— Edward Gibbon