Quotes About Elderly Wisdom

#1. The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

Andy Rooney

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Thus the story describes a full circle ... a vicious circle as all circles are, despite their posing as apples, or planets, or human faces.

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. Once we were young, now we are adult.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.

Nachman Of Breslov

#6. I'm starting to find my own style.

Kara Hayward

#7. Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom with young people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

Andrew Bird

#9. 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

#10. The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.

Iqbal Sacranie

#11. At first it was scary, but then I liked it too. Part of me wants to just stay next to you forever. I could easily do that. I could love you forever.

Jenny Han

#12. Irene Finney, like many very elderly people, knew that the world was indeed flat. It had a beginning and an end. And she had come to the edge.

Louise Penny

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. And there is such honesty and innocence to her voice I want to hold her. The bedside lamplight is a rich golden color, and it is falling on her face in a way that makes it seem gilded. For a moment, L.D. looks to me like an angel. Another case of illusion only being the larger truth.

Elizabeth Berg

#15. I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

John Updike

#16. As child, when the elders spoke their wise words, it only echoes in my ears. As adult, I have crystal clear insight to the wise aphorisms by the elderly.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.

Donald Laird

#20. I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life.

Rita Dove

#21. The adult were once young.
The young have not yet attained adulthood.The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Blessed is the society that has oldies.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Youthful exuberance is splendid.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child.

Charles Lee

#26. Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society ... the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

Pope Francis

#27. The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

Sarah Ferguson

#28. I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.

Ben Stein