Deryck Whibley Quotes

You just realize that you don't know everything there is to know. The older I get, the less I know, and that's a good thing. When I was young, I knew everything, and everything wasn't necessarily good.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

When I turned 30, I realized how ignorant I really was. I always thought I had a very accomplished life.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.

The woman over 50 must be very frank with herself.

We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

When you're 20, you think you know a lot more than you do.

As you grow older, maturity naturally comes to you. And it shows on your face. It's true not only about looks, but your maturity should also reflect in your performances.

At 30 I thought I knew everything, and 30 years later I didn't know anything.

I'm just getting wiser as I get older.

I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?

I had to grow up, reach a certain age where I see people do have something to show me.