I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young … - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

It's important to be honest with and respectful of each other and deal with issues as they arrive, as opposed to letting them simmer.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

Believe, Custom, Happens, Men, Practical, Stupid

Same Author Quotes

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Believing, Faith, Hope, Inspirational, Love, Success

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

Call, Fashion, Freedom, Leave, Tradition

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Error, Errors, Truth, Understand

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

Ifs, Problem, See, Solution, Solutions

On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.

Garden, God, Grave, Heaven, Night, World