“Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?” AgePastSawsPeriodsPrejudiceOld AgePeculiarPresent Time Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.” PeopleThinkingMindKindMayChildrenStillsIdeasPastTurnsParentGenerationsDangerConceptsPrejudiceOur ChildrenCarefulPeculiarSealsPast Generations Author:Brock Chisholm
“We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.” LooksMayMadeWholeAgePastFormVisionDoubtProgressFieldsLimitsTrainingContactRangeNo DoubtHorizonTransitionPeculiarTubes Author:Cargill Gilston Knott