That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
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John Stuart Mill, as quoted by Stevenson in Call to Greatness (1954), p. 102; this has also been misquoted as "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."Adlai Stevenson
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The height of the adventure is the height
Of country where two village cultures faded
Into each other. Both of them are lost.Robert Frost
'Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elder
There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
Carl von Clausewitz
The intoxication of self-feeling is the most intense, and the height of this intoxication is most admired. Love and friendship are the very height of self-feeling, the I intoxicated in the other-I. The more securely the two I's come together to become one I, the more this united I selfishly cuts itself off from all others.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
Warren Farrell
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