Past Ages Quotes
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots… — Henry Ward Beecher
- God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past… — William Ellery Channing
- It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in… — George Bernard Shaw
- Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began… — Nikola Tesla
- A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working atit and wills it, is exercising theenergies of his mind… — William Morris