Adolescence quotes and words of wisdom |  | "A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does,
and about two years after he thinks he does." | |  | General Lewis B. Hershey
| | | "ADOLESCENCE The stage between puberty and adultery." | | | Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
| | | "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?" | | | Jules Feiffer
| | | "I do not agree with this century"s fashion of running down the human
species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst, we may be going
through the early stages of adolescence, and everyone remembers what that
is like." | | | Lewis Thomas
| | | "Just at the age "twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and
speech is truth." | | | Sir Walter Scott
| | | "Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating
adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,
responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in
all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while
book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults." | | | Eric Hoffer
| | | "Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you
ignore them long enough." | | | Earl Wilson
| | | "The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes
an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he
forgives himself, he becomes wise." | | | Alden Nowlan
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Interesting Quotes
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.Douglas Adams - English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.Mao Tse-tung - Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976)
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