This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Common sense is that collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Age | Common Sense | Sense |
Henri Estienne, aka Henricus Stephanus
If youth only knew, if age only could.
The failure to invest greater resources into early childhood programs is almost incomprehensible.
Peter Medawar, fully Sir Peter Brian Medawar
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
Advice | Age | Better | Hypothesis |
P. D. Premasiri, fully Pahalawattage Don Premasiri
All the progress humanity has made appears to be endangered by the very technological skills that humans have achieved. We live in an age in which the evils that humans inflict on others have reached unparalleled extremes of barbarism.
Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Real growth comes only through self-acceptance. AS long as we deny any aspect of our being, we make believe that something could be outside of God. It is as if we say, “God is everywhere; He fills all time and space - except for this part of my body and what I did at age fifteen.”
Acceptance | Age | Body | God | Growth | Self | Space | Time |