Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.
The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into common things, and common things are not believed.
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.