Epochs Quotes

You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs--and bodies? - Mark Twain

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe. - Georges Cuvier

Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs. - Allan Kardec

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs. - Lord Byron

There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people. - Augusto Roa Bastos

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done. - Liberty Hyde Bailey

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it. - Henry Miller

The study of the history of music and the hearing of masterworks of different epochs will quickly cure you of vanity and self-adoration. - Robert A. Schumann

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. - Thomas Huxley