Future Ages Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
— Elihu Palmer
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I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We…
— Benjamin Franklin
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If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and…
— Plutarch
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The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil…
— Henry Thomas Buckle
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
— Pericles
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Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by…
— John Stuart Mill
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
— Walter Scott
Who Wrote These Future Ages Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Future Ages Quotes as follows: