Isaac DIsraeli Quotes about Age

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The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

Isaac D'Israeli

Reading, Age, Library

This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.

Isaac D'Israeli

Wise, Innovation, Age

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

Isaac D'Israeli

Iron, Age, Golden

"The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

Isaac D'Israeli

Luxury, Age, Pleasure

"The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli. Chapter 8, 1795.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Isaac D'Israeli

Education, Age, Genius

Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.

Isaac D'Israeli

Philosophical, Imagination, Age

"The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.