Best Our Age Quotations
199 Our Age quotes by 154 unique authors
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Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age…
— Carl Sagan
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Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
— Richard J. Foster
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Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that…
— Emile Zola
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A psychiatrist is the god of our age. But they cost money.
— Sylvia Plath
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Regardless of our age, experience, or station in life, we are all missionaries.
— David A. Bednar
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I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d…
— Banksy
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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of…
— H.G. Wells
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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology -…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The Lord made it very clear at the start of this last dispensation that we were to take the gospel to all the world. ...…
— Henry B. Eyring
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What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as…
— C.S. Lewis
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Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.
— William Deresiewicz
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Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet.…
— Jenny Han
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One of the most difficult problems of our age is that leaders, and perhaps academics as well, cannot readily admit that things are out of…
— Donald Michael Kraig
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The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.
— Bertrand Russell
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Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about…
— August Sander
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But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her…
— Norman Douglas
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In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its…
— James Russell Lowell
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The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
— Walter Lippmann
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In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age…
— John Leo
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