Admirer Quote by Madame de Stael

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

— Malcolm Forbes

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

— Anonymous

History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true…

— Philip Arthur Fisher

Neither scientific laboratories nor excavation expeditions can unravel the human need to believe in a greater truth, a truth strangely made all the more…

— Barkha Dutt

Truth takes no account of centuries.

— William Wordsworth

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later,…

— Theodore Parker

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

Long ago certain truths were discovered... And must always reappear.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

— Benedetto Croce

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

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and…

— Albert Camus

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

— Alfred de Vigny