"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."

Age, Wisdom, Foolishness, Tomorrow

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"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Age, Old, Youth

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Age, Impact, Success, Motivation

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Age, Technology

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Age, Service

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Age, Love, Pleasure, Regret

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Age, Old, Years

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Age, Work, Old, Sorrow

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher."

Success

"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."

Life

"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."

Art

"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."

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"There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs."

Truth

"The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget."

Man

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."

First

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

Work

"The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it."

Success

"No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition."

Men