Quotes about Wisdom
We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
— Vance Havner
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
— CS Lewis
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
— Helen Keller
Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
— JI Packer
I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
— Charles Dickens
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.
— Jennifer Lopez
It is time to be old To take in sail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
— Martin Luther
No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.
— St. John Chrysostom
When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.
— Marcus Aurelius