Thomas Hobbes Quotes

The age doesn't really matter to me as it seems to matter to other people. A lot of people think that youth or age is the total sum of your knowledge about anything, and it's absolutely untrue. I think I might have even known more five years ago than I do now.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

You don't get old being stupid.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

As you get older, you should be better at coaching. You learn your lessons. You keep thinking and learning about it, you should be better than you.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.

There are a lot of benefits to having a team of young people, but there are many benefits to having people who've made a lot of mistakes.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Experience makes us wise.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up