Quotes About Wisdom

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

The time has come for us to understand that the Eternal Feminine is the greatest power in this Universe.

To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense. It's always time that wins in the end.

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.

Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.