Wisdom Quote by Thomas Harris

“He had known it often enough. A delightful child, even a delightful early adolescent, interested in everything, alive,affectionate, would turn into a thick, heavy,…

— Patrick O'Brian

“Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.”

— Robin Hobb

“...for they was never a young man yet who don't want to go out and right a wrong, or kill a man, or have…

— Lee Smith

“He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in.”

— Henry James

“But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn't…

— Ralph Moody

“He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.”

— E. M. Forster

“Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age…

— Plato

“For he had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as…

— Thomas Wolfe

“The biggest challenge for a man is to attain the wisdom of 80 years of age in youth!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so…

— Joseph Heller

“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald