Quotes About Insight

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

What have I got better than anyone? Age.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

Well isn't that one thing you're all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what's going on

Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else.

You can only understand the present age when it is past.

Our thoughts determine our age.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.