Top 1200 Age And Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed.

I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade.

I think that young people - teenagers, college-age people, anyone under the age of 30 - know when they're being pandered to.

I don't understand why youngsters today start hitting gym at an early age. I believe the right age for going to gyms is after 35, when you are neither young, nor old.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.

In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization.

I don't think you should let your age stop anything you want to do. Don't put an age limit on your dreams.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

I always said, as a dietician, age doesn't matter. As long as you're doing good research and helping people eat well, it doesn't matter what age you are.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

Everyone always says it's a blessing to look a lot younger than my age, but sometimes I just want to look my real age.

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.

From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

There is no shame in wanting to age naturally or wanting to 'age gracefully' with a little help from products or procedures.

When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we may discover a space, a break in the chatter, a glimpse of open sky. This is our birthright—the wisdom with which we were born, the vast unfolding display of primordial richness, primordial openness, primordial wisdom itself. When one thought has ended and another has not yet begun, we can rest in that space.

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.

A new medical study reports that men who eat ten pizzas a week are less likely to develop prostate problems at age 50. That's because they are usually dead by age 40.

Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

My development at every age group was good. If I was playing in one age group, I always wanted to play the year above.

At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

I always felt you could age with style and grace, or you could age in denial and hold on to issues and never push through.

I'm not philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age... I accept the fact that I may have to raise my retirement age for that.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

It's always lovely for babies to grow up in a similar age gap and it's nice to have cousins be of a similar age.

It's really difficult to maintain a credible career as you jump from age group to age group and suddenly you're not the flavor of the month anymore; you're not in demand.

I think it's perfectly fine and interesting to have someone get married at a young age and have kids at a young age.

When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet, and they weren't really writing scripts for that age.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable - 'Am I believable at this age?'

My daughter was five when I was writing 'Minari,' very much close to the age of David. And I was about to turn 40, which was the age my dad was when he decided he was going to start this farm in Arkansas.

There isn't much to say about my childhood. I remember explosions of intense happiness, followed shortly afterwards by profound melancholy that always prompted remarks and comments from those around me on how remote my life was from my age. Therefore I rapidly lost all my respect for age. From then on, I always lived without any age, given that every year I used to repudiate it, choosing another one for the sole good reason that I liked it better.

Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position, reputation, wealth and success in business are deceptive. If we die tomorrow they will disappear tomorrow, and nothing will be left for our future. Wisdom, however, will never deceive us.

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without being costive. You must keep up dignity of character, without the least pride of birth, or rank. You must be gay, within all the bounds of decency and respect; and grave, without the affectation of wisdom, which does not become the age of twenty. You must be essentially secret, without being dark and mysterious. You must be firm, and even bold, but with great seeming modesty.

Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

Your biological age is a critical component in the entire aging process, and again, can be very different from your chronological age.

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

Girls around the age of 14 to 18 are deciding who they are and exploring relationships, they're ready to take charge of their life. Boys aren't as confident at that age. They want music that deals with their emotions for them.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.