Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

For the first time in human history, there are no elders anymore who know what young people know.

Books are for adults; revolution is for the young.

It's like when something good is happening with young people, then the old, grey people in power will be like: 'No! It cannot be like this!'

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

I'm not a big fan of young people.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know their parents have these old views.

Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect doesn't mean much to the young people. They like their ginger ale with hot sauce.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.