Gregory of Nazianzus Quotes

Education is the best provision for old age.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Miss not the discourse of the elders.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

The great wisdom of the world comes from the very old.

Days should speak, and multitudes of years should teach wisdom.

With the ancient [person] is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.

An old man in a house is a good sign in a house.

I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

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 excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

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.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

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

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.