Age And Wisdom Quotes

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Life, Wise, Wisdom

"Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions". Book edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281, 1988.

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Satchel Paige

Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

Wise, Wisdom, Im Sorry

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The years teach much which the days never know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Sophia Loren

Life, Birthday, Death

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

Love, Inspirational, Life

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Education, Wisdom, Lying

"Encore : A Continuing Anthology‬". Book by Smith Dent, p. 309, March 1945.

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

Wise, Wisdom, Philosophy

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Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

Life, Birthday, Inspiring

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

Inspirational, Wisdom, Wine

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

Birthday, Health, Medicine

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Arthur Wing Pinero

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Herman Melville

Life, Birthday, Time

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Germaine Greer

Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

Wine, Age, Abby

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I am not young enough to know everything.

James M. Barrie

Book, Athlete, Knowledge

The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Jack Benny

Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

New York Times, 1974.

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

Tom Wilson

Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Wisdom

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

Wise, Wisdom, Future

George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Birthday, Time, Years

Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)

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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Dorothy Parker

Birthday, Age, May

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

H. L. Mencken

Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom

H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Sara Teasdale

Life, Wise, Wisdom

Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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