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Biography - George Orwell:

George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) is an English novelist, essayist and journalist. He was born in Motihari, British India.
Born: 1903 - Died: 1950
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: India
India

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Chaque génération se croit plus intelligente que la précédente et plus sage que la suivante.

German
Jede Generation hält sich selbst für intelligenter als die vorherige und weiser als die nach ihr.




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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.




Quotes for: wisdom


Quotes

Quotes about wisdom:


Patience is the companion of wisdom.





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.





Wisdom leads us back to childhood.





This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.





The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.











Quotes for: intelligence


Quotes

Quotes about intelligence:


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.





To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.





Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.





The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.











Quotes

Quotes for: generation


Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.





In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.





Nations do not grow old in the same way that men do. Each generation born within the nation is like a new people.





An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.





The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.





When the older generation makes mistakes, the younger learns a bad lesson.











Quotes

George Orwell also said...


To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.





The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.





Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.





If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.





If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.





All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.












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