Age Wisdom Quotes

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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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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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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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.

Confucius

Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

"Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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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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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

Wise, Wisdom, Philosophy

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

Victor Hugo

Birthday, Health, Medicine

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

Dorothy Parker

Birthday, Age, May

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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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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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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Bill Vaughan

Funny, Witty, Elderly

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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.

Confucius

Believe, Age, Aging

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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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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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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.

Agatha Christie

Turning 50, Inspirational Birthday, 50th Birthday

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We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein

Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking

"The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

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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 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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anais Nin

Love, Life, Age

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