Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

I think perception is important.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

The older you get, the more you learn.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

But time growing old teaches all things.