Age Stake

Famous quotes containing the words age and/or stake:

“Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)

“Better risk loss of truth than chance of error—that is your faith-vetoer’s exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.”
—William James (1842–1910)