Development Quote by Sigmund Freud

The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion,…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the…

— Louise J. Kaplan

adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same time we…

— Grace Zaring Stone

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

— Anonymous

“youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be a provision of Nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. And Nature…

— kate chopin

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast…

— Helene Deutsch

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

— G. Stanley Hall

“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can,…

— Richard P. Feynman

Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

— G. Stanley Hall

“Once a child enters adolescence, it may become increasingly difficult to raise these issues. Because adolescence is a time of rebellion—of self-definition, of distinguishing…

— Jonathan Berent

The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to…

— Louise J. Kaplan