Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

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

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

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.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

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

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

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.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

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.

Growing older has helped me become empathetic to other people and their reasons for making choices. I used to think there was a definitive right and wrong and that only I knew what they were and so I should be dictator of the world.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

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

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.

You've got to go through times in your life when you're not going to make the greatest decisions. But the thing is, I always say, you grade a person on what they've become after they've made some mistakes. Because it's so easy to make mistakes when you're young.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

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

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.