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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike

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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. – Herbert Hoover

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. – Aristotle

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