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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
Sep 10, 2025
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Live your life and forget your age.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
We are always the same age inside.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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