Home » Quote » H.L. Mencken » „The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.“ „The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.“ — H.L. Mencken Tags:AgeWisdom Related quotes „The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.... Certainly it would be difficult to imagine any committee of relatively young men, of thirty or thirty-five, showing the unbroken childishness, ignorance and lack of humor of the Supreme Court of the United States. The average age of the learned justices must be well beyond sixty, and all of them are supposed to be of finished and mellowed sagacity. Yet their knowledge of the most ordinary principles of justice often turns out to be extremely meager, and when they spread themselves grandly upon a great case their reasoning powers are usually found to be precisely equal to those of a respectable Pullman conductor.“ — H.L. Mencken „I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.“ — Paul of Tarsus „The road to wisdom is paved with excess.The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.“ — Walt Whitman „Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.“ — Gloria Steinem „Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I`m not an actor who can just play the kid.“ — Leonardo DiCaprio
„The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.“ — H.L. Mencken Tags:AgeWisdom