Laura Marling Quotes

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

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

I think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.

It's one thing to be innocent and another thing to be naive or willfully ignorant.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Youth is wasted on the young.

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

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.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

No one but a fool is always right.

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.