Cognitive Aging Quotes

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

Age is not based on chronology, but psychology.

People ask me, How would you do as a contestant on the show? And I tell them I would do fairly well among senior citizens, but against a good thirty-year-old I would have trouble because I cannot recall information as quickly as I used to. You used to say something and I would go, boom, right away, very sharp. Now it's like, Oh, yes, but wait a minute, uh, uh.

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

Scientists have discovered that, as we age, our brains act like computers with fuller and fuller hard drives. So when we're trying to recall a fact or a word or a name, it takes us longer, because - to put it scientifically - our brains hold a lot of 'stuff.'

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

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

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

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

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is not a good thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

Women with a higher intake of berries appeared to have delayed cognitive aging by 2.5 years. So it's like your brain is 2.5 years younger if you're eating berries.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

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!

Our thoughts determine our age.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.