Quotes About Youth

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

for whenever men are right they are not young

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

There is a difference between being a bad child and being a wild child. Anybody can be wild, but to be bad you need some kind of knowledge.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.

On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.

Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.

The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.

No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed 'bossy' by their peers.