Credulity Quote by William Wordsworth

When they turn the pages of history, when these days have passed long ago-- will they read of us with sadness for the seeds…

— Neil Peart

The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro' the dust of ages living shoots O'…

— Gerald Massey

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

— Francis Bacon

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

— Thomas Carlyle

“History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions; and, as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“History is natural selection. Mutant versions of the past struggle for dominance; new species of fact arise,and old, saurian truths go to the wall,…

— Salman Rushdie

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

“When I look at this age with the eye of a distant future, I find nothing so remarkable in the man of the present…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If we wish to do justice to the historical enterprise, we must take past for what it was. And that means that we must…

— David C. Lindberg

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

— John Osborne

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald