Age Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been…

— Evelyn Waugh

Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

— Mal Fletcher

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any…

— Samuel Johnson

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

— J. J. Abrams

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something.…

— Richard P. Feynman

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not…

— Michel de Montaigne

But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed…

— Anna Quindlen

“Not only do increasing numbers of laypeople lack basic knowledge, they reject fundamental rules of evidence and refuse to learn how to make a…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be…

— T.H. White

Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without…

— Anonymous

It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age.

— Proverb

People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that we can…

— Jennifer James