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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.