Anthony Kiedis Quotes

Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.

When you're 20, you think you know a lot more than you do.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I am sure that adolescents find it just as confusing and difficult to understand themselves as their elders find them difficult to understand.

You can't say when you are 25 years old that you know everything. You don't.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

The age doesn't really matter to me as it seems to matter to other people. A lot of people think that youth or age is the total sum of your knowledge about anything, and it's absolutely untrue. I think I might have even known more five years ago than I do now.

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't think in terms of being professional. I didn't know anything about it. That happened later.

Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.

Every time I make another record and every time I get a year older, I become more and more confident in who I am and more in tune with what I want as a person. I think it's the same for anyone in any walk of life. You just grow with experience and become more confident in exploring new things.

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.

You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.