Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other…

Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant…

— William Butler Yeats

“Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, lemme tell you. Those are big years. Everybody always thinks of it as a time of adolescence—just getting through to…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“A man ought to get wisdom when he’s young, not when he’s too old for it to matter. We spend a lifetime learning, then…

— C.M. Curtis

I love young people because they are always looking ahead, and older people because they can look back; and both make sense of the…

— Polixeni Papapetrou

“Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom with young…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old.…

— Epicurus

“The Canarsie People said the knowing belongs to the old and wise, but the unfolding is in the keeping of the young. The old…

— Beverly Swerling

Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far…

— Anonymous

If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be far from…

— Roger Williams

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

— George Sand

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

— Elbert Hubbard

... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Don't judge me because I'm stupid. Don't judge me because I'm, mean. Don't judge me because I'm weird. Don't judge me for mistakes. Because…

— Isaiah Harden (Me