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When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom. — Terraine Francois

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise. — Sophocles

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. — Benjamin Disraeli

Youth boasts of strength;
age boasts of wisdom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom ... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing. — Edward Young

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life. — Ezra Taft Benson

Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves — Iain M. Banks

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness. — Wasif Ali Wasif

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert

Gray hair is the glory of a long life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

-I was young! I made a mistake, okay! Haven't you ever made a mistake?
-I'm old! Of course I've made mistakes, you stupid little shit! — Drea Damara

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. — Anna Quindlen

Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child. — Charles Lee

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition. — E. J. Hughes

He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part. — Marc Maron

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. — Charles Simmons

Treasure the wisdom of old age.
Learn from elder people and be wise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The wisdom of age defeats the strength of youth. — Ginn Hale

The paradox of life; I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age. — Brian Jacques

She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty of age as early as possible. — George Eliot

You ought to love and care for your parents in their old age. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age. — Ram Dass

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us. — C. G. Jung

It's time we put the bud back in Buddha and the sap back in Homo sapiens, and end this age of folly - this folly-age! — S.J. Cameron

Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it's all the rage — Benny Bellamacina

The biggest challenge for a man is to attain the wisdom of 80 years of age in youth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. — Roland Barthes

In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them. — Umair Haque

Old age is the lubricant of belief. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The glory of the elderly is long life with grey hair. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone. — Hasan Of Basra

Active wisdom
an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52] — Mary Catherine Bateson

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing. — Robert Wilson Lynd

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge! — Linda Sue Park

This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls. — Bryan Islip

And when youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years. — George S. Clason

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me. — Doseone

Beauty is not the flawless perfection of youth, but the fine lines, scars, and wisdom which only living can give you. — Reyna Pryde

The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone. — Conn Iggulden

Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom. — Aeschylus

I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had ... a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip. — Linda Medley

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. — Mason Cooley

It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin. — Reese Witherspoon

Make your sacred-life an eventful journey. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters. — Louise Penny

Growing gray hair is the glory of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. — Zora Neale Hurston

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. — Bias Of Priene

A 'caring' judgment is still a judgment. And any form of judgment creates blocks and stagnation. — Alaric Hutchinson

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered. — Ambrose Bierce

Age cannot determine the power of wisdom and stupid humans as we all are, think; more older the better wisdom. — Santosh Kalwar

If man had the wisdom of age in youth and the vitality of youth in age, then he would be an eternally wise young man. (Feb 2003) — James King

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost. — Carolyn Mackler

Youthful exuberance is splendid. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood. — Lailah Gifty Akita

From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins. — Idries Shah

The dream is possible at any age. Go live your dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius. — Gertrude Atherton

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom. — George Bernard Shaw

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it. — Joseph Joubert

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway,

Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent. — Hannah Arendt

Living is a kind of skill. The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time. — Atul Gawande

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Age brought wisdom, but it also brought a genuine gratitude for the happiness of sharing life with someone as much liked as loved. — Colleen McCullough

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. — Thomas Dekker

Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age. — Dan Fogelberg

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. — William Osler

Knowledge pertains to knowing and to intelligence while wisdom has to do with the soundness of judgment. — Pearl Zhu

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age. — Mason Cooley

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom. — Nina Totenberg

failure equals rethink; success equals vigilance — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I am old. I should have left before. Any fool can ride the chariots of victory. It takes judgement to get off at the right time. — Richard Sapir

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience. — Christopher Paolini

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

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age. — Nirmala Srivastava

Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart. — Stephen Covey

Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom. — Mal Fletcher

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life. — Edgar Lee Masters

It's amazing how when we were young we wanted to know what it felt like to be older and when we are older we want the feeling of being younger again. — DeWayne Owens

Life had engraved such beauty in those lines of age and wisdom ... — Rosslyn Elliott

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom — George Carlin

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day. — Brad Pitt

Get better with age or else age will get the better of you. — Habeeb Akande

The person of wisdom is the person of years. — Edward Young

Age is not the flight of years; it is the dawn of wisdom in the mind of man. — Joseph Murphy

There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later. — Nikki Rowe

The energy of our thoughts, words, actions, and emotions collectively create the frequency of our vibrational aura. — Alaric Hutchinson

Youth is to wander! Adult is to act! Age is to assimilate the beauty of thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

Age does not bring wisdom, Ben, but it does give perspective ... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted. — Robert A. Heinlein