Quotes About Wisdom

To what do you attribute your advanced age? Well I suppose I must attribute it to the fact that I have not died.

Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

She was born in the year of our Lord only knows. The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

Old age is like everything else to make a success of it you got to start young.

I was just thinking when I was a young girl I never knew what every young girl was supposed to know. And now I am going to be an old lady I don't know what every old lady is supposed to know.

Life begins at fifty but so does bad eyesight arthritis and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same listeners.

There are three ages of man: youth middle age and "Gee you look good."

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

I associate wisdom and grace with age.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

Either you will determine truth by your feelings or truth will determine your feelings. Be careful following feelings alone.

Let's leave it all alone. I'm stupidest when I try to be funny.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.