Changed Quote by Arthur C. Clarke Download Open image “Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.” — Arthur C. Clarke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Changed Folly Past Time Wisdom
What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“The study of the past helps us to appreciate that the ideas and values of our own age are just as provisional and transient… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time. — George Boas Copy Share Image
The past ruins the present to destroy the future. Take charge of the NOW. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The universe is full of energy, but much of it is at equilibrium. At equilibrium no energy can flow, and therefore it cannot be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Here the trees surrounded them with an invisible, anechoic blanket, so that every word seemed sucked into silence the moment it was uttered.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
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You made me hate my own reflection Question every choice I make So I could try to be perfect But I will try to… — Lynn Copy Share Image
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Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image