Cate Blanchett Quotes

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I think I've got wiser.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

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

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

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Wisdom begins at the end.