David Mamet Quotes

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

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

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

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

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

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.

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

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

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

I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

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

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

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

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

Miss not the discourse of the elders.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

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.