Rajneesh Quotes

I'm not naive.

You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

The love of my life? I'm much too young to answer that question.

When you grow up, people don't speak the truth. You can see, when you trust people, you help them.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

My wife likes to say I act like a kid, so maybe that's why I sing like one!

I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.

We all are so serious when we are younger.

Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

Marvelous are the innocent.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.