George Steiner Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

  George Steiner

  Teacher, Careers, Age

• Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.

  George Steiner

  Age, Done, Opponents

• The age of the book is almost gone.

  George Steiner

  Book, Reading, Age

  The Daily Mail, June 27, 1988.

• There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

  George Steiner

  Intellectual, Age, Three

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.171, Oxford University Press on Demand

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