Quotes About The Wisdom Of The Elderly

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

Charles Lee

#2. 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

#3. It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

Clifford D. Simak

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Youthful exuberance is splendid.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

James Patterson

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Blessed is the society that has oldies.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Donald Laird

#14. I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

Don Van Vliet

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. I love to work with young kids.

Itzhak Perlman

#18. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Nachman Of Breslov

#25. I did it because I think it's time you finally knew that the stars were always for you. Always. Only. Ever. For you.

Jillian Dodd

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

Edmund Burke

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

Andy Rooney