Accustomed Quote by Jose Saramago

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never…

— Robertson Davies

As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

— T. S. Eliot

Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.

— Robin Sharma

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain?…

— John Dryden

“There will come a time when man is no longer concerned only with survival, when he will once more be curious as to who…

— Julie Kagawa

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

— Lillian B. Rubin

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

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

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

— Mark Twain