Faith Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors…

— Charles MacKay

“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“...at twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell…

— Booth Tarkington

“Each one will always find in his age a reasonable reason to doubt”

— Frederico Rochaferreira

“I believe in reverencing anything in the life of man which has the testimony of the ages as being unexcelled, whether it be literature,…

— C.B. MacDonald

“Confirmations, corroborations rather than disillusionment. At eighteen I was as much of a philosopher as I ever will be.”

— Henry Miller

“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

“our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness”

— samuel johnson

“...every period of life has its necessities, and at forty-seven it's just as well to trust a little to the head.”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“every age has its folly”

— Jill Lepore