Old And Wise Quotes

When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.

I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.

Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

Though old and wise, yet still advise.

Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost dreadful, so absorbing, so stirring down to the deeps. For the tiny creature is so old and wise and sweet, and so fascinating in his sturdy common sense and clear intelligence; and his affection for me is a wonderful, exquisite thing, the sweetest flower that has bloomed for me in all my life through.

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?

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

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