Hendrik Groen quote: "In contrast to what you’d expect, narrow-mindedness increases and tolerance lessens with the onset of old age. “Old and wise” is the exception rather than the rule."

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KELLY JONES

Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
UNKNOWN

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
MARY ALICE MESSENGER

though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting...
BRIGITTE BARDOT

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not ...
CESARE LOMBROSO

Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: brea...
J.C. RYLE

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present
SYDNEY SMITH

في شبابنا نريد أن نغير العالم .. في شيخوختنا نريد أن نغي�...
أنيس منصور

Young tyrants are more genocidal than old tyrants - with the exception of Khomeini.
JOHN MCCARTHY

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, wher...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and co...
EOWYN IVEY

We all have an old house because of the things we have done in the past.We also have ghosts haunting...
GARY F EVANS...

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such t...
PHILIP PULLMAN

The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty...
MITCH ALBOM

don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole ...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Some say you become wise with age. No. You become OLD with age, you become wise with experiences. Th...
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS

We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL

The pseudo-intellectual points out the exception to the rule rather than the broader stereotypical t...
TROY J. GAINEY

A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fool...
ANUJ SOMANY

Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON

In fact, once when I imprinted on a young lady’s lips a chaste and fatherly kiss for about five mi...
ISAAC ASIMOV

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we ha...
KNUT HAMSUN

The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON

It was only a generation ago when women were the exception rather than the rule at college campuses,...
TRAVIS REINDL

Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
MARK TWAIN

Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.
EMILY LEVINE

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wi...
JUVENAL

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
UNKNOWN

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great wor...
SOPHOCLES

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
HOSEA BALLOU

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves every...
CARL SCHMITT

Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
SAMUEL BECKETT

Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE

Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contact...
CLARE BOOTH LUCE

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contact...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE

Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL

So she sat down to morning tea, like any other old lady with a high nose, thin cheeks, a ring on her...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

THE GAP: Closed-Mindedness can create it, Narrow-Mindedness can widen it, Open-Mindedness can close ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. ...
H. J. BYRON

We're going to stay with the old rule,
PETER KALIKOW

It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
WALT WHITMAN

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with ...
WALT WHITMAN

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
EDITH WHARTON

How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception
JAMES THURBER

Life's irony;Atimes the wise may have to act foolish in other to maintain the status of being wise.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

The wise is not the one that has amassed $1b fortune,but the one that ardently works with the belief...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

The wise person is one who can take $1 & turn it to $10
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of ...
CHANAKYA

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Some have the wisdom of old age and the energy of youth. Most have the wisdom of youth, and the ener...
UNKNOWN

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The stars the moon and the sun...so old, so wise. Think of what they've seen
E. PALUSZAK

It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH

Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH

Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH

Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH

As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness ...
GEORGE MACDONALD

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

I must be old, Pyotr thought to himself, if my son is being kind to me.
KATHERINE ARDEN

We could endlessly reminisce, live in the past to an unhealthy degree, then politely kill each other...
TIMOTHY SCHAFFERT

Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID

Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.
LA BRUYERE

Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things
WALT DISNEY COMPANY

When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me...
GARY F EVANS...

I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.
L.J. SMITH

And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON

I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
ANTOINE RIVAROL

The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH

In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we l...
ERIK ERIKSON

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words a...
SOPHOCLES

I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON

Everything has it's own time and place, Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
SHELLI THOMPSON

Quite apart from anything else, the rule of money sees to it that we shall be governed largely by th...
GEORGE ORWELL

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
AL SHARPMAN

The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to re...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI

In contrast to what you’d expect, narrow-mindedness increases and tolerance lessens with the onset of old age. “Old and wise” is the exception rather than the rule.

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In contrast to what you’d expect, narrow-mindedness increases and tolerance lessens with the onset of old age. “Old and wise” is the exception rather than the rule.

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