Generations Quotes


Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity. Posterity has done nothing for us. Abraham Lincoln Generations 173
Amongst democratic nations, each generation is a new people. Alexis de Tocqueville Generations 148
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. Gloria Steinem Generations 138
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. Anthony Crosland Generations 122
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. Lewis Mumford Generations 112
Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote. Arthur Schopenhauer Generations 110
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. Charles Dudley Warner Generations 103
The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. Oscar Wilde Generations 102
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Thomas Paine Generations 96
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. W. Somerset Maugham Generations 90
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever. William Blake Generations 90
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. Willa Cather Generations 85
Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind.... What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards; arts, establishments, opinions; nothing is ever completed, but ever completing. Thomas Carlyle Generations 83
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. D.H. Lawrence Generations 82
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. Source Unknown Generations 81
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. John Quincy Adams Generations 77
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. Adlai Stevenson Generations 71
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. Logan Pearsall Smith Generations 64
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence Generations 56
We may consider each generation as a separate nation, with a right, by the will of the majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. Thomas Jefferson Generations 51
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. Ecclesiastes Generations 50
Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy. Cullen Hightower Generations 50
I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it. Henry David Thoreau Generations 47
Every 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 Generations 44

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