Age Quote by Anonymous

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than…

— Ezra Pound

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

— Charles Lamb

“Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer anyone who…

— Søren Kierkegaard

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer,…

— William E. Gladstone

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

— Henry Ford

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to…

— Henry Ford

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years…

— Freya Stark

It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time;…

— Ellen Key

“My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and…

— James Lee Burke

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