Quote by Jill Lepore Download Open image ““every age has its folly”” — Jill Lepore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
“Age doesn't cure foolishness—it only tells everyone that someone is an old fool rather than a young one,” — Connie Suttle Copy Share Image
“What seems strained - a mere triumph of perverse ingenuity - to one age, seems plain and obvious to another, so that our ancestors… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Ages are as fallible as individuals, every age… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“...as this is ordinarily the fate of young heads, so reflection upon the folly of it, is as ordinarily the exercise of more years,… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Age was no guide then, nor is it now. The old and the young defy their endings, while others go too soon. Neither is… — Conn Iggulden Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is bound up… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
