“The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 74
“Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.”
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“Old men are always young enough to learn.”
Variant translation: Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old. <br class="br">Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 584 ( line 583 of Richmond Lattimore's translation http://books.google.com/books?id=3duN7nP3OQYC&q=%22old+men+are+always+young+enough+to+learn%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage)