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“Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.”

Ideas Sometimes Life Is Belief Grows Society Youth Letting Go Empty Conservative Possession Radical Symptoms Conservatism

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How, for exciting youth's heroic flame, Assent is power, belief the soul of fact.”

Knows World Heart Soul Facts Stories Belief Know How This World Youth Research Exciting Remains Flames Heroic Severe Solace

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.”

Thinking Moments Belief Special Youth Regret Privilege Firm Present Moment Looking Forward Possessing Firm Beliefs

Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.”

Men Desire Belief Difficult Youth Despair Spring Prepared Injustice Privilege Disappointment Optimistic Agony Outrage Hopefulness

Book:The Galantrys

Source: The Galantrys

“We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of being old ourselves comes as a surprise, and is often accompanied by the belief that there has been some mistake.”

People May Has Beens Facts Age Belief Numbers Mistake Youth Surprise Getting Old Getting Older Uneasy Being Old

Author:Terri E Apter

“When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.”

Giving Belief Process Accepting Teaching Youth Giving Up Discovering

Book:The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen

Source: The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen

“Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who was disrupting the youth and questioning the faith and belief? Socrates, in other words. It was Socrates.”

Belief Youth Questioning Conform Greece Drank Obeying Hemlock

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.”

Belief Secret Youth Development Eternal Eternity Arrested Adages Eternal Youth

Book:Mrs. L.: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Source: Mrs. L.: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.”

Ifs Believe Said Belief Force Youth Bears Easier Distance

Author:Michelle Sagara