Age Quote by George Henry Lewes

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward,…

— James Joyce

“Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn,…

— Raheel Farooq

No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past…

— William Hazlitt

There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we…

— Carl Sagan

There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer,…

— John Stuart Mill

The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal…

— Horace Mann

The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this…

— Wole Soyinka

“Nevertheless, the doctrine that one can impose one’s visions and desires on the world by the force of thought alone retains a powerful appeal…

— Richard P. Rumelt

The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the…

— Max Weber

“It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptance betokens a lack of intellectual…

— Carl Sagan

It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary…

— John Stuart Mill