Quotes About Understanding

I never spent much time with people my own age.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

If youth only knew, if age only could.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

What have I got better than anyone? Age.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.