Caves Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When you are older, you'll understand for yourself the influence of age on convictions.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

— W. Somerset Maugham

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

— Henry James

“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking…

— Stephen King

“Convictions and the man--it seems they're two different things in many ways. Maybe in many ways I'm guilty before them!...We're all guilty, we're all…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“People make decisions and arrive at convictions through analysis”

— Timothy Keller

“I spent eighteen days entirely in widening and deepening my cave,”

— Daniel Defoe

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

— Anonymous

“The components of innocence - security, a sense of wonder, and optimism- are not just throwaway by-products of the ignorance of youth.”

— Diane Medved