Age Wisdom Quotes:

Live your life and forget your age.

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

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

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

- Confucius

source: "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

topic: Wisdom, Attitude, Crazy, Live And Learn, Knowledge And Wisdom

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

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

- Socrates

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

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

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

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

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

- Victor Hugo

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

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

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

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

- Dorothy Parker

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

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

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

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

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

- Confucius

topic: Believe, Age, Aging, Chinese Philosophy, Pleasant Things

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

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

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

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

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 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

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

- Anais Nin

topic: Life, Best Love, Love You, Staying Young, Losing Love

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

- Germaine Greer

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

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

- Alberto Giacometti

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

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Time, Silly, Age, Fools And Wise, Age Wisdom

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

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

- Lucille Ball

topic: Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Inspirational, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

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

People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

source: Abraham Joshua Heschel (1986). “The Wisdom of Heschel”, p.114, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

topic: Spiritual, Mean, Maturity, Age Wisdom