Theodore Dalrymple Quotes

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

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.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

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

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I am not young enough to know everything.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

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.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

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.

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.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

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

I've become a lot wiser over the years.