Old People Wisdom Quotes

#1. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young.

Daphne Du Maurier

#3. The dream is possible at any age. Go live your dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. At eighty-six years old, people tell you how much wisdom you have. I don't know about all of that, but I do know that God has done much in me and through me, and He's still working on me.

John M. Perkins

#5. When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom.

Terraine Francois

#6. How earthy old people become
moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

Helen Mirren

#8. 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

#9. I love young people because they are always looking ahead, and older people because they can look back; and both make sense of the world so economically. You can learn so much from the wisdom of the young and the old. I'm just in between!

Polixeni Papapetrou

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. The Canarsie People said the knowing belongs to the old and wise, but the unfolding is in the keeping of the young. The old prevent the young from straying off the path of wisdom. The young yearn after the path of dreams. Between the two there is truth.

Beverly Swerling

#13. All new news is old news happening to new people

Malcolm Muggeridge

#14. Gray hair is the glory of a long life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. I would not have the old ways die, for all people in their own way find a path to wisdom. Each way can be a good way. Each has something to offer the world.

Louis L'Amour

#16. Treasure the wisdom of old age.
Learn from elder people and be wise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

Jason Calacanis

#18. You ought to love and care for your parents in their old age.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old.

Dennis Prager

#21. We've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door ... if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his "no trespassing" sign

Tom Robbins

#22. It is true what people say, the young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.

Jose Saramago

#23. Blessed is the society that has oldies.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. The glory of the elderly is long life with grey hair.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Erik Erikson

#26. People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

Craig Ferguson

#27. Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#28. Youthful exuberance is splendid.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.

Estelle Getty

#30. I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

Isak Dinesen

#31. Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it's all the rage

Benny Bellamacina

#32. Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn't do good for people, she did right by them.

Terry Pratchett

#33. Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.

Kent Haruf