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Quotes About Wisdom

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.
~ Elizabeth Gillies
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
~ J. Paul Getty
Age is not based on chronology, but psychology.
~ Tony Robbins
It is pain that ages us, not years.
~ Bonnie Prudden
Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.
~ Malcolm Cowley
A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.
~ Jerry Pournelle
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.
~ Elizabeth I
We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.
~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.
~ Bernard Manning
The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.
~ Nancy Friday
I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
~ Agatha Christie
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
~ Billy Graham
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
~ Felix Frankfurter
I am luminous with age.
~ Meridel Le Sueur
I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.
~ Shelley Winters
Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.
~ Michael Buckley
Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
~ Ida Tarbell
Young. Old. Just Words.
~ George Burns
If youth only knew, if age only could.
~ Samuel Ullman
Old age spiritualizes people naturally
~ Ram Dass
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette