Top 79 Quotes About Old Age Wisdom
#1. 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
#2. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.
Sophocles
#7. 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
#8. Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye
Benny Bellamacina
#9. Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#10. Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.
Christopher Hitchens
#11. 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
#12. Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. When you suspect old age is catching up with you, live faster!
Benny Bellamacina
#14. -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
#15. Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
Roland Barthes
#16. Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.
Colleen McCullough
#17. Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does
- except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But
only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren
#18. Children's and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that's why so many adults read YA: we're never done coming of age.
Betsy Cornwell
#19. Gray hairs signify old age, not wisdom.
Muscles signify strength, not health.
Laughter signifies amusement, not joy.
Weeping signifies pain, not weakness.
Smiling signifies courteousness, not love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.
Jimi Hendrix
#21. Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
Saint Augustine
#22. I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.
Hammurabi
#25. My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.
Mason Cooley
#26. My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
Golda Meir
#27. The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken
#28. 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
#29. Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it's all the rage
Benny Bellamacina
#30. 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
#31. Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
Aeschylus
#32. Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Epicurus
#33. We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#34. I think I have learnt something of the value of stillness. I don't fret so much; I laugh at myself more often; I don't laugh at others. I live life at my own pace. Like a banyan tree. Is this wisdom, or is it just old age?
Ruskin Bond
#36. Intensity of belief is diluted with age. But perhaps wisdom is in seeing our own failures, how we misdirected our energies? Nothing is entirely pure or sacred or certain as we grow older.
Adib Khan
#37. Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#38. Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
Joseph Joubert
#39. Do not dismiss the words of the old;
they possess wisdom,
which comes only with age,
and often speak of things
that the young are too immature
to understand.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#40. 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
#41. 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
#43. How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.
Margaret Atwood
#44. He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.
Publilius Syrus
#45. Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
Solon
#46. 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
#47. There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.
Sophocles
#48. I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.
Doseone
#49. 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
#50. 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
#52. How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?
Marty Rubin
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom.
Terraine Francois
#61. The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.
Elizabeth Goudge
#62. It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#64. To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#65. Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
Joseph Joubert
#66. It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.
Philip Moeller
#67. Living is a kind of skill. The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time.
Atul Gawande
#68. No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Ernest Hemingway,
#71. 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
#72. You might look into the eyes of an infant, born mere minutes ago, to find that she is a thousand years old. Their limitless warmth and wisdom belie her true age.
Brian L. Weiss
#74. Treasure the wisdom of old age.
Learn from elder people and be wise.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.
P.G. Wodehouse
#76. The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain, he wasn't too old to climb trees. You could tell he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who?
Nicole Krauss
#77. Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
Voltaire
#78. The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.
Fredrik Backman
#79. The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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