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Quotes About Youth

Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.
~ Peter Cosgrove
Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
~ Godfried Bomans
I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.
~ Jonas Salk
I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.
~ Brett Kenny
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
~ Saint Augustine
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
~ Menander
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
~ Laura Marling
Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.
~ Howard Rheingold
When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?
~ Margaret Deland
Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age
~ John Walter Bratton
Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.
~ Horace
her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.
~ Gertrude Atherton
Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.
~ Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.
~ Virginia Graham
Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.
~ George R. R. Martin
For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.
~ Barack Obama
The trouble with the nations of the West is that they are young, fickle, foolish and wealthy.
~ Swami Vivekananda
And as he spoke, in the youth and noonday of the West, a nation, sleeping in the shadows of the darkened half of earth, on the far side of the Pacific, waited in spirit for the words that would be borne on the dawn that was travelling towards them, to reveal to them the secret of their own greatness and strength.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Men Men Men, these are wanted. Strong believing young men, A hundred such and the world will get revolutionized.
~ Swami Vivekananda
If you're not a rebel by the age of twenty, you've got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by thirty, you've got no brains.
~ Swimming with Sharks
When one's young, everything is a rehearsal. To be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.
~ Sybille Bedford
What was being put over (by Musso[lini] & Co.) was, she was never in doubt, based on trickery and false values, sanctified aggression, pandered to false pride; it made ignorant youth feel important, gave foolish people spurious hopes – it was dangerous stuff.
~ Sybille Bedford