Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

It's just that old people always think young people haven't really learned about love; and young people think that old people have forgotten about love; and, you know, they're both wrong.

One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

- What will History say?
- History, sir, will lie. As always.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error

There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not remember where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say, "His memory is going."