Age Quotes

9856 Age quotes by 5336 unique authors

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to… — William Shakespeare
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has… — Charles Caleb Colton
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of… — Louis Kronenberger
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. — Hermann Hesse
You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know? — Penny Marshall
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin,… — P.J. O'Rourke
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are… — Thomas Jefferson
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,… — George Washington
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what… — Jonathan Swift
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect… — David Hume
The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. — Confucius
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and… — John F. Kennedy
No age seemed the age of romance to itself. — Thomas Carlyle
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty,… — Michel de Montaigne
The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system. — Thomas Paine
My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books. — Albert Einstein

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