Quotes About Maturity

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.