Arrogance Of Youth Quotes

• Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

  James D. Watson

  Travel, Moving, Adventure

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• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  Edmund Burke

  Time, Age, Taught

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.107, University of Chicago Press

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• I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

  Francesca Annis

  People, Said, Arrogance

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• With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

  William Morris

  Blessed, Men, Goes On

  "William Morris & Red House". Book by Jan Marsh, p. 65, 2005.

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• We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.

  Guy Laliberte

  People, Tents, Firsts

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• When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

  Joely Richardson

  Arrogance, Firsts, Youth

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.

  James Robertson

  Mother, Strong, Grandparent

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