Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

I am not young enough to know everything.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

The more you know the less you need to say.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

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.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

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 you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

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

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the 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.

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

I think I've got wiser.

An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and keep quiet about it.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

Writing a love song when I was 19 is very different than writing a love song when I'm 25. You're more sophisticated; you can elaborate and pinpoint special things a little clearer.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

There are creative benefits to getting older.