Quotes About Youth

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd run barefoot, relax a bit more, I'd talk more to children, and I'd learn how they laugh.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

I'd rather be called immature in those little moments, than be mature and live the rest of my life with those little regrets.

An example is the best inspiration for a young mind.

As child, when the elders spoke their wise words, it only echoes in my ears. As adult, I have crystal clear insight to the wise aphorisms by the elderly.