Century Quotes

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. (Alvin Toffler)
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. View quote
Thomas Mann
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. View quote
Norman Mailer
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. View quote
John Updike
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle. View quote
Edward Witten
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. View quote
José Martí
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. (Douglas MacArthur)
Reality in our century is not something to be faced. View quote
Graham Greene
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. View quote
Margaret Mead
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. View quote
Dean Koontz
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. View quote
H. G. Wells
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. View quote
Lewis Mumford
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. (Dan Quayle)
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. View quote
Alan Turing
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!" View quote
M. R. James
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. View quote
Bing Crosby