Age And Wisdom Quotes:

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

- Isaac Asimov

source: "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions". Book edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281, 1988.

topic: Knowledge, Sadness, Science, Life Wisdom, Mathematics And Science

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

- Satchel Paige

source: Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

topic: Birthday, Baseball, Fun, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Wisdom, Im Sorry, Educational, Great Wisdom, Spiritual Journey

The years teach much which the days never know.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Wisdom, Wisdom And Experience, Wise Wisdom

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

- Sophia Loren

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Life, Birthday, Uplifting, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

- John Barrymore

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Man Of My Dreams, Staying Young

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Education, Wisdom, Lying, Knowledge And Wisdom, Knowledge Education

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

- Socrates

topic: Wisdom, Knowing, True Wisdom, Knowing Others, Wisdom And Experience

Live your life and forget your age.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Time, Live Your Life, Age, Inspirational Age, Just Live Your Life

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Wine, Abby, Age And Wisdom

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Health, Medicine, 50th Birthday, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

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

- Arthur Wing Pinero

topic: Positive, Deep Love, Age, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Differences, Prayer Changes Things, Courage To Change

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.

- Herman Melville

topic: Life, Birthday, Time, Staying Young, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

- Germaine Greer

topic: Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness, Humorous Birthday, Mature And Immature

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: Wine, Age, Firsts, Abby, Age And Wisdom

I am not young enough to know everything.

- James M. Barrie

source: The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

topic: Knowledge, Enough, Young, Knowing Things, Mimicry

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Jack Benny

topic: Mind, Age, Matter, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

- Tom Wilson

topic: Happy Birthday, Wisdom, Silly, Old Jokes, Coming Of Age

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

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

topic: Wise, Wisdom, Future, Our Past, Wisdom And Experience

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Birthday, Time, Years, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

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

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Birthday, Age, May, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday, Ageing

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

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom, Older People, Old Age Humor

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

- Sara Teasdale

source: Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

topic: Life, Wise, Wisdom, Wise Life, Wise Wisdom

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Wisdom, Knowledge, Decision, Knowledge And Wisdom, Knowledge Wisdom

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

- George Burns

source: Joan Collins (2006). “The Art of Living Well: Looking Good, Feeling Great”, Sourcebooks Incorporated

topic: Birthday, Optimistic, Wish, Older People, Growing Old

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Happy Birthday, Time, Stars, Fade Away, Growing Old

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Age, New Life, Blooming, Borrowed Time, Turning 50

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

- George William Curtis

source: George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111

topic: Birthday, Years, Feelings, Inspirational Age, Wise Age

We are always the same age inside.

- Gertrude Stein

source: "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

topic: Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Education, Spirit Of Life, Meaning Life

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Time, Humor, Tragedy, Old Age Humor, Age And Wisdom

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.

- George Eliot

topic: Funny, Happy Birthday, Time, Milestone, Milestone Birthday

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

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Funny, Witty, Elderly, Inspirational Age, Old Age Humor

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

- Bertolt Brecht

topic: Wisdom, Mistake, Wine, Age And Wisdom, Old And New

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

- Alberto Giacometti

topic: Solitude, Grows, Older People, Old Age Humor, Old Birthday

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.

- Charles Dickens

source: A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

topic: Spring, Winter, Light, Incredulity, Great Literature

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

- Debra Winger

topic: Age, Care, Lines, Age And Wisdom

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.

- Bill Bonner

topic: Wisdom, Learning, Forever, Wiser You, Age And Wisdom

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

- Reese Witherspoon

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Age, Skins, Comfort, Age And Wisdom

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.

- Debra Winger

topic: Cutting, Age, Care, Age And Wisdom