Quotes About Wisdom

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it

One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

King David and King Solomon Led merry, merry lives, With many, many lady friends And many, many wives; But when old age crept over them, With many, many qualms, King Solomon wrote the Proverbs And King David wrote the Psalms.

At my age flowers scare me.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

Old age is not total misery, experience helps.