William Hazlitt Quotes

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

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

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a stupid old man. Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.