People Judge Quote by Hilary Mantel

“But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?" 398”

— Hilary Mantel

“he came from a generation where teachers were revered and respected, not ridiculed and scorned.  And, perhaps, because he didn’t quite understand them, he…

— Terri Reid

“The worst of which he could be accused during his teaching career is that he made far too great a distinction between those students…

— J.K. Rowling

“He had a high opinion of his own insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a clever…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The hundred-year-old man had never let himself be irritated by people, even when there was a good reason to be, and he was not…

— Jonas Jonasson

“Was he the only one who was just old enough to speak out, not yet so old and jaded that he acceded to authority…

— wildbow

“We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren’t perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors…

— Charles MacKay

“One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The surest way to corrupt a youth? Teach him to value thinking alike more than thinking differently.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche - Kauffman