His Earliest Quotes
- History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what… — Thomas Carlyle
- The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward… — Plato
- A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing… — Thornton Wilder
- Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist… — Frank Sulloway
- My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the… — Walter Mosley