Capable Quote by Joseph Lancaster

Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in…

— Francis Bacon

Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves.…

— Paul Goodman

“I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that…

— Adolf Hitler

As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

— Mark Twain

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

— John Bercow

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

— H. L. Mencken

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of…

— Ellen Glasgow

The man who joins with youths stays young in heart and mind. In exchange for the gift of their vitality and eagerness, the mature…

— Henry Clausen

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

— Charles M. Schwab

Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy…

— Anonymous