Top 22 Elder Wisdom Quotes
#1. Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
John Updike
#2. There is an icy window before every man! Faces cannot be seen clearly! Wait for the ice to melt down!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you.
Radhe Maa
#7. Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
Alice Walker
#8. Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to the great world around it. Each elder is a philosopher of sorts, trying to sort out the meanings and gleanings of a life as well as the necessary implications of the presence of death.
Michael Meade
#9. It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone.
Christina Westover
#10. Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
Dogen
#12. As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed, and humiliated beyond all consolation.
Linda Sunshine
#13. Strive to have the faith of a child; endeavour to have the wisdom of an elder.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#14. I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
#15. Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.
Sharon Salzberg
#16. It's clear that politeness to one's elders can't always be justified on the basis of the elder's superior wisdom. It's just that it's not attractive to see a young person answering an older person back.
Zoe Heller
#17. Treasure the wisdom of old age.
Learn from elder people and be wise.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#18. Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato The Elder
#19. Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten.
Kami Garcia
#20. I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
Jane Fonda
#21. This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer.
Marco Rubio
#22. Emotions are not predicated by others' actions but by perception. Choose your perception and you illicit your emotion.
E. Rodriguez Y Nogueras
