"When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in……" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves."
More Age Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood