Conceit Quote by Margaret Oliphant

“I suppose every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. ("The Open…

— Margaret Oliphant

It takes a society to raise a generation.

— David Berman

“Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition,…

— C.S. Lewis

Every generation is equidistant from God.

— Leopold von Ranke

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

— Anonymous

History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.

— Geoffrey Ward

Each generation gets more accepting which is great.

— Willam Belli

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

— Faith Baldwin

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

— George Orwell

No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.

— John Mott

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

— Otto von Bismarck

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson