Generation Quotes

Each 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)
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude. View quote
William James
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
A politician ... is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation. View quote
James Freeman Clarke
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. View quote
George F. Kennan
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. (Gertrude Stein)
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. View quote
Emil Cioran
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. View quote
Joseph Addison
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. View quote
Joseph Addison
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. View quote
P. D. James
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. View quote
Gregory Bateson
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity-unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. View quote
Henry Clay
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. View quote
Jim Morrison
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. (Lewis Mumford)
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. View quote
Max Beerbohm
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage. View quote
Abdul Kalam