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Quotes about Age


Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kin Hubbard

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

John Ruskin

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Czeslaw Milosz

A pessimist is one who is seasick on the entire voyage of life.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Emerson [Letters and Social Aims]

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Albert Einstein

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.

Rabindranath Tagore [1861-1941]

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Peter Cochrane

It often shows an excellent command of language to say nothing.

Karol Newlin

We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

John Webster

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Saint Augustine

The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know." -Andre Maurois

The world isn't worse. It's just that the news coverage is so much better.

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

John Stuart Mill

Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

Scott Adams

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Ambrose Redmoon

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

program (pro'-gram) [n] A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.

The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know." -Andre Maurois

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

John Stuart Mill

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