Quotes About Wisdom

I am not young enough to know everything.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.

I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.

When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

Some things get better with age. Like me.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

There's nothing good about being my age.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.