Age Quote by John Herschel

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

— Albert Schweitzer

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives,…

— George Henry Lewes

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

— Anonymous

“Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.”

— Martin Heidegger

If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and…

— John Cowper Powys

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy…

— Friedrich Schiller

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

— Francis Bacon

“Again, it's about patterns––you see the pattern, for example, that a young person has moral outrage and is finding effective ways to express it.…

— Adam Bucko

As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

— James Russell Lowell

“In twenty years’ time—in other words, when you’re thirty-seven years old—you will have understood at last that all the evil in the world—I mean…

— Orhan Pamuk