Quotes About Wisdom

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

If youth knew; if age could.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.