Quotes About Wisdom

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

I don't want people to think about my age. Notbecause I don't want them to know my age, I just don't want them to think about it, I don't want itto be a factor.

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

What have I got better than anyone? Age.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms

The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

Years do not always make age.

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.