Age Quote by John Stuart Mill

The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.

— Burton J. Hendrick

Every possible opinion is authored about everything. What's going to eventually happen is someone will look back on this period and have to sift…

— Chuck Klosterman

Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation,…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the…

— Ludwig von Mises

“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

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion

— Voltaire

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely…

— Pierre Bayle

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely…

— Pierre Bayle

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

— Anonymous

“The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception…

— Samuel Johnson

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular…

— Herodotus

“To me,' said Mr. Herbert, 'it seems rather that the only hope for the present age lies in the possibility of some individual wiser…

— William Hurrell Mallock