Browsing Topic Best Age And Wisdom Quotes

The more you know the less you understand.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.

What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.

Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.

By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

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 epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don’t care to make.

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don’t care to make.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

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

We are always the same age inside.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.