Quotes About Age

age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.

Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.