Quotes About Perspective

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

The older you get, the more important it is to not act your age.

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.