His Own Generation Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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Believing, repenting, and the like, are the product of the new nature; and can never be produced by the old corrupt nature... as the child…
— Thomas Boston
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As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
— Max Beerbohm
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The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
— Seneca the Younger
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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as…
— George Edward Woodberry
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We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in…
— Karl Popper
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.An author ought…
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Who Wrote These His Own Generation Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 His Own Generation Quotes as follows: