Age Quote by Isaiah Berlin

“Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that…

— Adolf Hitler

“Am struck by paradoxical thought that youth is by no means the happiest time of life, but that most of the rest of life…

— E.M. Delafield

In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible…

— William Godwin

“In its dream of the triumph of reason and science, the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century failed in its hope of sweeping away old…

— Jan Swafford

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on…

— Honore de Balzac

Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of…

— Samuel Adams

“wisdom, courage, temperance, fortitude and all those qualities that can command the admiration of noble minds, is not surpassed in the history of any…

— Peter Marshall

“To be distinguished for elegance and accomplishments—the authorised object of their youth—could have had no useful influence that way, no moral effect on the…

— Jane Austen

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Each age needs its own language for understanding enduring truths…The ancient world didn’t have much of what we call reality; they lived, instead, by…

— Robert A. Johnson