#youthful

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#alive #barriers #between #communication #elders

But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a bright sunny day, or some happy outward circumstance. And when the brilliant fourteen fine days of October came on, her cares were all blown away as lightly as thistledown, and she thought of nothing but the glories of the forest. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#age

Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#experience

You are never too old to become younger! ↗

— Mae West

#paradox #poetry #story #story-telling #youthfulness

I'm too old to know everything ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humour #youthful-arrogance #arrogance

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too. ↗

— Louise Brown

#battle #believe #classes #clever #daughters

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty. ↗

— James D. Watson

#arrogance #belief #both #characterized #found

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning. ↗

— Roy Haynes

#energy #fountain #leader #meaning #musician

My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible. ↗

— Oliver Hudson

#being #energy #her #human #human being

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#wonder #young-at-heart #youth #youthfulness #beauty