Courses Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

— Anonymous

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than…

— Luc de Clapiers

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

— Thomas Jefferson

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Old age makes us wiser and more foolish

— Russyb

Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up…

— Marian Seldes

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

— Oscar Wilde

As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Older people have formed their opinions about everything, and don't waver before they act. It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold…

— Anne Frank