Quotes About The Wisdom Of Old Age

#1. Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.

Aeschylus

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Joseph Joubert

#17. 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

#18. We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. 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

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

Benny Bellamacina

#21. I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

Doseone

#22. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Terraine Francois

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

Joseph Joubert

#31. There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

Sophocles

#32. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Old age is the lubricant of belief.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#37. No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Ernest Hemingway,

#38. Living is a kind of skill. The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time.

Atul Gawande