Mark Knopfler Quotes

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

The more life you live, the more you are able to understand the experiences of other people. It's one of the few benefits of getting older.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

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.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

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.

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

The longer you live, the smarter you get because you've been around. You've seen things. You've gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better. And that makes you a better actress.

I think, with more experience, I'm probably wiser, calmer. You hope you'll be able to use your knowledge a bit better.

As you grow older, you start looking at the bigger picture. You don't look at only yourself.

Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.

I do have a bit of empathy I suppose, but it has come more recently as I'm knocking on 30's door and I think I'm getting there.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

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.

A bit of perspective and life experience isn't a bad thing.

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.