Distrust Quote by H L Mencken Download Open image “The older I grew the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” — H L Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distrust Doctrine Growing up Wisdom
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
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… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. Its only advantage, so far as I have been able… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Wisdom does not come with age, wisdom comes from knowledge of the world itself, and mistakes you have learned from in your lifetime, no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Wisdom doesn't always come with age. But age always comes with experience. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction.” — H L Mencken Copy Share Image
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. --H. L. Mencken — H L Mencken Copy Share Image
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. — H L Mencken Copy Share Image
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone… — H L Mencken Copy Share Image
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throat. — H L Mencken Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust… — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
On one thing, at least, men & women both agree: They both distrust women. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots.… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
