Garrett Fort Quotes

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

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.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

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.

The older you get, the more you learn.

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

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

But time growing old teaches all things.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.