Character Quote by Honore de Balzac

They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition…

— Aristotle

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they…

— Bram Stoker

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— H. L. Mencken

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve…

— Anonymous

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“None strive to know their proper merit But strain for wisdom, beauty, spirit And lose the praise that is their due When they've the…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack…

— Frederick Lenz

“It is an illusion that youth is happy: an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this…

— Isaiah Berlin