Margaret Atwood Quotes

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.

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

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and keep quiet about it.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.

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.

My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you get wiser.

The voice of experience keeps its mouth shut.

As you get old, you live and learn.

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.