Youthful Wisdom Quotes

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

My own feelings of where I am in this world and the questions that I am asking myself, I started to explore them through the story 'Four Feathers' and through this actor called Heath Ledger. I knew that I had to find a 21-year-old who could play wisdom at the end. He's only 21 or 22, and I tested him.

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

Oh, wise young judge.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.

How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

I've always been a leader. I've always kind of been the tallest person on the team when I was younger but always kind of the smartest. I was ahead of my time. I wasn't always the oldest, I kind of was the youngest on the team, but, I kind of knew what to do at times.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way.

Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

I found that with Rooney, her instincts in films was always to underplay and to sort of reduce down what was necessary to bring you in - a sense of economy, a sense of scale, which just seemed to understand the medium so well. When you see that in a younger actor, I always think it speaks to incredible knowledge. I can't exactly figure out where that comes from, that confidence to know how to be quiet.