Lucretius Quotes

The older you get, the better you get. The key is just keeping the body up with the mind. The mind keeps developing when the body is breaking down.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

A body that doesn't move mentally or physically dies.

Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.

As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.

I feel young, but my body doesn't agree.

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

Education forms the common mind.

Both strength of mind and body are necessary, strengths which in the last few months have deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.

As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!