"As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish." What do you think? True/False? Stereotype?

Question

The question is based on a quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld.

My quote regarding this subject is: "Sometimes I think I'm wiser, or better put, 'me foolish'?, Never! Sometimes I think knowing you're foolish is wise or thinking you're wise is foolish but, then again, I may be fooling myself."

Answer 1

Yesterday is still today. We are wise but not beyond our 'years'. We still learn as we grow older and yet we still do foolish things. It will always be this way. It is part of why we are human. Poppy

Answer 2

'Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.' - Rudyard Kipling

Answer 3

It is A Truly fun Play on words... but one does become wiser with age...I would have to believe, unless their was an underlying mental illness.   One should always learn from ones mistakes, and from all the sources that surround them... , but they do not...  there are also those philosophical wishful wisemen who like to ponder the universe and share their thoughts w/ all who care to lend an ear to their gobbledygook. kaballah, scientology, vegetarianism, supernatural aliens.

Answer 4

"There's no fool like an old fool."

I'm probably quoting someone important but I have no idea who first said it outloud.

Answer 5

I've often heard it said the "fools rush in", but then that could also be "fools Russian"...either way, now that I'm older, I have memories of being extremely foolish & try to find ways of admitting that it was me committing those foolish acts!  Since I have Russian ancestry, then I guess I'm a bigger fool than most simply because I really know where the word caucasian comes from & I have a nice memory of a rug to prove it!  Hah!

Answer 6

Personally speaking, I am wiser and less foolish. As the years go by we learn from our mistakes, or at least some of us do. (Raising hand here.) I've done foolish, and I've done unwise. I've learned better.

Answer 7

Your question has depth and so I'm going into my deep thinking mode.

At 73, I rarely compare myself to others. Mainly be cause I feel I am wiser with the wisdom to sort out my knowledge of things.

I do personally know some” foolish”  wise friends close to the age I am.

Are we really looking for the term "gullible"  - “unsuspecting” - “fleece able” or are we speaking about the possibility of just plain being weary as we grow old?

Maybe we would rather live within our own private peace and care less how smart we appear to others.

I could with my wisdom, knowledge and common sense, know I’m safer to be looked at as inadvisable than to bother with everyone looking to me to be advisable.

Hope you didn't mind my playing around with words.

Fun question.

DeeJay.  

Answer 8

I think we all learn and become a little wiser after we get older.Its the old been there done that.But we learn from the mistakes and become wiser for it i guess.Yet i still do some dumb stuff every now and then.Guess im just keepin in practice lol

Answer 9

I think your fooling around.  

Answer 10

I thought I was wise in my youth - but it is only with age I realise the error of my ways.

Therefore - am I foolish today by my thinking of tomorrow?

Will today be the wisest I will be for this age or will tomorrow give me the wisdom to know that the best is behind me?

Questions questions - so many questions and perhaps a drop too much to drink With apologies to the Ancient Mariner!

love life

and friends

Answer 11

I used to think I didn't care, but now I know I don't give a shite.