Later Life Quotes

36 quotes by 34 authors

• The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different… — Ezra Taft Benson
• [The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to… — Morris Kline
• I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all. — George Bernard Shaw
• Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the… — Bertrand Russell
• No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape… — Sigmund Freud
• Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life. — Harold George Koenig
• [Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in… — John B. S. Haldane
• In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army.… — Jean Paul
• Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings… — Melanie Klein
• Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and,… — Knut Hamsun
• No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will… — Cyril Connolly
• School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural… — Jules Henry
• Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid… — Greg Giraldo
• We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes it… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
• If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able,… — Rudolf Steiner
• Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a childs soul.”• “Play… — Friedrich Frobel
• It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education… — Bertrand Russell
• Nerds are far more interesting human in later life. — Alyson Hannigan
• It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars,… — John Taylor Gatto
• The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand. — Miguel Ferrer

Who Wrote These Later Life Quotes

34 authors contributed a total of 36 Later Life Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Later Life Quotes by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Later Life Quote by Morris Kline
• 1 Later Life Quote by Alvin Lee
• 1 Later Life Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Later Life Quote by Sigmund Freud
• 1 Later Life Quote by Harold George Koenig
• 1 Later Life Quote by John B. S. Haldane
• 1 Later Life Quote by Jean Paul
• 1 Later Life Quote by Melanie Klein
• 1 Later Life Quote by Knut Hamsun
• 1 Later Life Quote by Cyril Connolly
• 1 Later Life Quote by Jules Henry
• 1 Later Life Quote by Greg Giraldo
• 1 Later Life Quote by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
• 1 Later Life Quote by Rudolf Steiner
• 1 Later Life Quote by Friedrich Frobel
• 1 Later Life Quote by Alyson Hannigan
• 1 Later Life Quote by John Taylor Gatto
• 1 Later Life Quote by Miguel Ferrer
• 1 Later Life Quote by Emo Philips
• 1 Later Life Quote by Marcel Proust
• 1 Later Life Quote by Iain Duncan Smith
• 1 Later Life Quote by Charles Dickens
• 1 Later Life Quote by Peter Kropotkin
• 1 Later Life Quote by Duke of Wellington