Wisdom with Age Quotes

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

The older you get, the more you know about certain things.

I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

Some things get better with age. Like me.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

I'm looking forward to becoming older and quieter.

The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Do I miss the package I came in at 25? I do. Gravity is no one's friend. Yet the perspective I've gained is so worth the wear and tear. What would have mortified me at 25 is now simply fodder for a funny, relatable story. Also? I was a waitress at 25, and now I'm an author. Forty-five is definitely better.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then.

One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

There's no such thing as turning back the hands of time, and it makes me crazy that we live in a society where that's sold to women—that we're supposed to believe that if we're getting older, we've failed somehow, that we have failed by not staying young. I wish that women would let other women age gracefully and allow them to get older and know that as we get older, we become wiser.