Age Quote by Thomas Gold

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

— Carl von Clausewitz

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was…

— Bertrand Russell

“Yet the same gradual decay to which, after a certain age, all the language of psychology seems liable, has been at work even here.…

— John Stuart Mill

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit…

— James Anthony Froude

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

— Michel de Montaigne

“In all cases positive palaeontological evidence may be implicitly trusted; negative evidence is worthless, as experience has so often shown.”

— Charles Darwin

We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that…

— Eliza R. Snow

Maybe when I was younger, people didn't always believe in me; they didn't think I would make it to where I am now.

— Harry Kane

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

— Teresa of Avila

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

— Immanuel Kant