That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.