Quotes About Youth

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.

It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.