#youthful

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

Perhaps the only reason they survived, Stencil reasoned, was that they were not alone. God knew how many more there were with a hothouse sense of time, no knowledge of life, and at the mercy of Fortune. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#youthfulness #life

I'm too old to know everything ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humour #youthful-arrogance #arrogance

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#early #early life #imprint #influence #leave

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

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. ↗

— Frances Burney

#contentment #curb #diminish #enjoyment #expectation

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#curiosity #i #i think #important #important aspect

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#chronologically #connected #even #eyes #first

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#change #i #look #makes #people

I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else. ↗

— Steve Albini

#being #busy #delusion #doing #else