Age Quote by R. H. Tawney Download Open image “The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.” — R. H. Tawney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Art Certainty History Next Philosophy Problem Science
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next. — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Age is not a problem. It becomes a problem when people try and make us think old. — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
When you get to a certain age any big change is hard to deal with. — Christopher Timothy Copy Share Image
youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance,… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt. — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement. — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual,… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
“Granted, I should love my neighbor as myself, the questions which, under modern conditions of large-scale organization, remain for solution are, ''Who precisely is… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
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