The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.