wisdom Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about wisdom.
“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
- Jonathan Swift
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”
- Amos Bronson Alcott
“If youth knew if age could.”
- Sigmund Freud
“There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.”
- Jon Bon Jovi
“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
- Douglas MacArthur
“Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.”
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
“Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”
- Pope John XXIII
“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Old age and the passage of time teach all things.”
- Sophocles