Quotes About Wisdom

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

I like older people; I think older people have a lot of flavor.

I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.

As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.

What I always say is that young people need older people to develop their game, grow as people, and understand what Real means.

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

To play an older woman, 'til the look is not affected, it is never a problem for me. To play a matured character, it's different. You get to learn so much. It becomes more serious.

In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

I've always been drawn to older women.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

I've become more mature on and off the court, and I've learned how to deal with some of those big occasions much better.

To have died once is enough.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

I am seeking the will of God, living one day at a time.

I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21.

I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.

I think one of the things that saved me is that I never put all my eggs in one basket.