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As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.
Sep 28, 2025
Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.
The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y
The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be.
Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!
The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.
The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Learn from yesterday, live for today.
That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
With trials, you become wiser. You learn more about yourself and the people surrounding you. Me personally, I've never been the type of person to judge anyone over wrongdoing, no matter what it is. I'm just not a judgmental person.
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