#wisdo

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#wisdom #age

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost. ↗

— Carolyn Mackler

#life #wisdom #age

Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!) ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#wisdom #age

Love is the science of reducing your sound while upping the amplitude of another person. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#wisdom #age

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ageing #henry-kissinger #old-age #sources #wisdom

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#condescension #wisdom #age

Escalators are the offspring of elevators and stairs. Love is the progeny of passion and admiration. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#philosophy #wisdom #age

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humour #knowledge-wisdom #memory #age

Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age. ↗

— Anne Gracie

#elegance #wisdom #age

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom. ↗

— Solon

#age