Inheritance Quotes

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. (Georg Brandes)
This is all the inheritance I can give to my dear family. The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed. View quote
Patrick Henry
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. View quote
Edmund Burke
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. View quote
Edmund Burke
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain. View quote
George Steiner
I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. View quote
Herman Wouk
As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. (Charles Darwin)
The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people. View quote
Charles Darwin
A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external” forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal” forces representing constraints of inheritance and development. Vavilov placed too much emphasis on internal constraints and downgraded the power of selection. But Western Darwinians have erred equally in practically ignoring (while acknowledging in theory) the limits placed on selection by structure and development-what Vavilov and the older biologists would have called "laws of form.”. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Mass society destroys the things it is told are its inheritance. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. View quote
Walter Gilbert
The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man. View quote
William H. Seward
Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance - And must I lose a soul's inheritance? View quote
Oscar Wilde
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on. View quote
Louis Riel
No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before. (James A. Michener)
Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey. View quote
P. D. Ouspensky
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. View quote
Karl Kraus
All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own. View quote
Roger Scruton
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living. View quote
Roger Scruton