Quotes About Growth

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

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 passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

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

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

Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Old age is not total misery, experience helps.

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.