Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

Marcel Proust

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Henry Rollins

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

Margaret Deland

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

Peter Jennings

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Joan Didion

I lead a very conventional life.

Rush Limbaugh

I reject most conventional wisdom.

Steven Levitt

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.