"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.“


-Graham Greene

posted in wisdom


Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast."

-Graham Greene

warView Quote
"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction."

-Graham Greene

truthView Quote
"The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."

-Graham Greene

truthView Quote
"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."

-Graham Greene

truthView Quote
"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."

-Graham Greene

trustView Quote
"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."

-Graham Greene

technologyView Quote

More Quotes About wisdom

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."

-Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

wisdomView Quote
"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."

-Lord John Russell

wisdomView Quote
"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."

-Francis Hutcheson

wisdomView Quote
"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."

-Stanford Moore

wisdomView Quote
"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."

-Nina Totenberg

wisdomView Quote
"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."

-John Bigelow

wisdomView Quote