Quotes About Wisdom

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

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

The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.