Top 100 Age Wisdom Quotes
#1. How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity.
Barbara Pym
#2. Don't wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom.
Nana Awere Damoah
#3. Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.
Plato
#4. At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.
Norman Wisdom
#5. Nature is grand and is made of dream-like elements.
All is one, and connected,
making an incredible journey, becoming one and united, eternally.
MARTH
#6. 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
#7. It takes wisdom to know when you've had enough, strength to make the decision and determination to see it through.
Seraphine Abrams
#8. Age is in the mind, not in calendar.
Anonymous
#9. True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#10. Our reality is colored by our vibration and belief systems. In other words, the experiences we have in the world with other people are dictated by the energy we bring with us wherever we go.
Alaric Hutchinson
#11. I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that.
Richard Dawkins
#12. I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.
Joanna Rossiter
#14. 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
#15. Here's what else I've learned: Age doesn't guarantee wisdom, any more than age guarantees intelligence.
Nicholas Sparks
#16. We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.
Criss Jami
#17. 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
#18. Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Plautus
#19. It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.
Gillian Linscott
#20. Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.
Megan Crane
#21. And when youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years.
George S. Clason
#22. To have the spirit of youth and the wisdom from age. Is to have used the eternal fountain of life within our very souls. Not for an instant but for a lifetime. Amen.
Ivan Alexander Pozo-Illas
#23. How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?
Marty Rubin
#24. I have a big collection of quotation programs ... In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.
Jerry Pournelle
#26. There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.
Sophocles
#27. and Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace with God and men" (Luke 2:52),
Romano Guardini
#28. Contrary to the tenets of conventional wisdom, viral ideas and campaigns were not first transmitted via the electronic media of the Internet age. Their ideological forebears lived and replicated in the host coffee-houses, inns and taverns of the early eighteenth-century.
Gavin John Adams
#29. Age had nothing to do with how well my brain worked.
Ann Aguirre
#30. I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
Zoe Saldana
#31. He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.
Publilius Syrus
#32. Great Inititates are characterized less by their cosmic wisdom than by the deep knowledge that they are endless beginners at all times, with an infinity of things to learn
Alan Richardson
#33. Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
Solon
#34. The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring
that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#36. A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.
Nicholas G. Carr
#37. The energy of our thoughts, words, actions, and emotions collectively create the frequency of our vibrational aura.
Alaric Hutchinson
#38. Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
Ezra Taft Benson
#39. Those who believe in death
are the ones who believe we are born.
The ones who understand
we are in a dream-like unknown space right now,
will believe neither in death nor in life.
MARTH
#40. I understand that there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It's too bad that the two can't come together because I do think that people are dropped from what they're really good at too soon.
Rene Russo
#41. I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.
Doseone
#42. Knowledge pertains to knowing and to intelligence while wisdom has to do with the soundness of judgment.
Pearl Zhu
#43. 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
#44. Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
Garrison Keillor
#45. Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.
Mary Roach
#46. Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is a great library, great library is a freedom within wisdom in this digital age
Baris Gencel
#48. In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom ... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
Edward Young
#49. Life had engraved such beauty in those lines of age and wisdom ...
Rosslyn Elliott
#50. Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.
Brian Jacques
#51. That is the problem with age and wisdom - it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
Bill Bonner
#52. Us women, no matter how crude we are with one another,we must always remember that we have two enemies in common."
The three of us look at each other confused, then back at Ms. Eleanor waiting for her to answer.
"Men," she sighs, still staring off. "And old age.
Chelsea Ballinger
#54. 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
#55. When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom.
Terraine Francois
#56. 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
#59. The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.
Joan D. Chittister
#60. 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
#61. I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.
Sharon Osbourne
#62. With age comes wisdom, you ever hear that?"
"I did, but I've found that wisdom has a cut-off point of around one hundred and twenty years. Once you reach that, you're really as wise as you're going to get.
Derek Landy
#63. Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#65. The Coming of Wisdom with Time
Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.
W.B.Yeats
#66. Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life you give so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#67. What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
Vivek Wadhwa
#68. For the New Age community, 'ancient' knowledge is always considered unimpeachable and unimprovable, just as a diverse range of beliefs from Eastern mysticism to UFOs, energy dowsing to cryptozoology, are - though mutually contradictory - unquestionably accepted in the name of open-mindedness.
Mark Crutchfield
#69. We cannot dim another person's light without first extinguishing our own.
Alaric Hutchinson
#70. Easy to Understand, but profound wisdom for women seeking a deeper understanding of what happens to their bodies and minds as they reach the age of forty and beyond. A must read for every woman! -- Super Health Nation
Ivy Gilbert
#71. With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.
Sandra Lake
#73. Knowledge was never simply born in the human mind; it was always reborn. The relaying of wisdom from one age to the next, this cycle of rebirths: this was wisdom.
Salman Rushdie
#74. CANDLE WISDOM
If you knew
what you will know
when your candle
has burnt low,
it would greatly
ease your plight
while your candle
still burns bright.
Piet Hein
#76. Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.
Stephen Covey
#77. Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th
No need to have wisdom and sage
But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade
Do try to act more your age
John Walter Bratton
#78. To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.
Samuel Johnson
#79. What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.
Jessica Zafra
#80. The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.
Nirmala Srivastava
#81. We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should be looking for wisdom, and choosing people who had acquired it; and such people, in general, looked bad on television - gray, lined, thoughtful.
Alexander McCall Smith
#82. You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.
Cheryl Strayed
#83. With age comes wisdom. You don't need big boobs to be feminine. Look at Liberace.
Joan Rivers
#84. Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!
Linda Sue Park
#85. The wisdom of age defeats the strength of youth.
Ginn Hale
#86. I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.
Ray Lamontagne
#87. My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.
James Lee Burke
#88. Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna , and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.
Roger Bacon
#89. Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.
Anne Gracie
#90. Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
Anthony Trollope
#91. 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
#92. At the time he seemed both ancient and French, but the wisdom that has come with age tells me he was thirty-two and faking the accent.
Joel Derfner
#94. Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters."
"You're not," Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[ ... ]
"But I came far. Miles can be years.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#96. Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Charles Simmons
#97. In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.
Umair Haque
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Those who lack within themselves the means for living a blessed and happy life will find any age painful.
- How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
