Generations Quote by Frances Wright Download Open image “The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.” — Frances Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generations Ignorance Knowledge Next
“The present generation is the future generation, beware of what you teach them” — J. Nedumaan Copy Share Image
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A generation that acquires knowledge without ever understanding how that knowledge can benefit the community is a generation that is not learning what it… — Elizabeth L Hollander Copy Share Image
All we have is the knowledge passed on to us by our elders, experiences we inculcate and hardly negate. But to bridge the generation… — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it. — James St. James Copy Share Image
Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Whatever the one generation may learn from the other, that which is genuinely human no generation learns from the foregoing...Thus no generation has learned… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us. — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman Copy Share Image
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
