Youthful Ignorance Quotes

They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.

When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.

I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.

Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

As a young kid, you only know what you know.

At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.

When you're young and arrogant and cocky and feel you're invincible, you say a lot of mean things to a lot of people because you think you're better, you don't need to deal with people.

The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

In my 20s I was so ignorant about drugs, and so naive. I mean, my band was smoking marijuana for years; I didn't even know what a joint was. And I'd never seen a line of cocaine in my life. And I don't know whether it was bravado or - OK, I'll join in. But my stupidity, I had a line of coke, and that started the whole process.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

When you're a kid, you just have no concept of anything other than what you're doing.

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

At least when I was young, in high school: "Eh, voting doesn't mean nothing." You don't really know that to be true, you just say it. Then you get older, and responsible, and you go, "Oh heck, let me vote." And then you vote and you go away. I was actually right when I was 16.

At least when you're young you're also stupid.

One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.