Top 88 Quotes About Wisdom With Age
#1. Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.
Anne Gracie
#2. With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.
Sandra Lake
#3. What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
Vivek Wadhwa
#4. Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life you give so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#5. The Coming of Wisdom with Time
Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.
W.B.Yeats
#6. That is the problem with age and wisdom - it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
Bill Bonner
#7. With age comes wisdom, you ever hear that?"
"I did, but I've found that wisdom has a cut-off point of around one hundred and twenty years. Once you reach that, you're really as wise as you're going to get.
Derek Landy
#8. I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.
Louise Penny
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. At the time he seemed both ancient and French, but the wisdom that has come with age tells me he was thirty-two and faking the accent.
Joel Derfner
#12. Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.
Stephen Covey
#13. My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.
James Lee Burke
#14. With age comes wisdom. You don't need big boobs to be feminine. Look at Liberace.
Joan Rivers
#15. You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.
Cheryl Strayed
#16. What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.
Jessica Zafra
#17. I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.
Joanna Rossiter
#18. Our reality is colored by our vibration and belief systems. In other words, the experiences we have in the world with other people are dictated by the energy we bring with us wherever we go.
Alaric Hutchinson
#19. Active wisdom
an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]
Mary Catherine Bateson
#20. Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.
Mary Roach
#21. Knowledge pertains to knowing and to intelligence while wisdom has to do with the soundness of judgment.
Pearl Zhu
#23. Great Inititates are characterized less by their cosmic wisdom than by the deep knowledge that they are endless beginners at all times, with an infinity of things to learn
Alan Richardson
#24. I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
Zoe Saldana
#25. Age had nothing to do with how well my brain worked.
Ann Aguirre
#26. and Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace with God and men" (Luke 2:52),
Romano Guardini
#27. 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
#28. [He was] mournfully pregnant with patriotism, and middle age, and imaginary wisdom.
Kurt Vonnegut
#29. A man cannot change who he is. He can only hope that with age comes the wisdom to see his folly. I would like to believe I have achieved that.
Bette Lee Crosby
#30. I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.
Paulo Coelho
#31. The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#32. With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Nas
#33. Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.
Zack Love
#34. Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.
Mal Fletcher
#35. Although generally our sight diminishes with age; I submit that our vision improves. The older we get, the more clearly we see our life's decisions played out to their logical conclusions.
David C. Maloney
#36. With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
Oscar Wilde
#37. Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
Ambrose Bierce
#38. I've always believed with age comes wisdom. And I find salt and pepper hair to be very attractive.
Gideon Glick
#39. It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#40. For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age.
Bertolt Brecht
#41. He often heard that wisdom comes with age, and he waited, trusting that this wisdom would bring him what he most wanted; that ability to guide his memories and not fall into the traps that they often set for him.
Luis Sepulveda
#42. Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Bo Bennett
#43. Squandering time is a luxury of profligate youth, when the years are to us as dollars are to billionaires. Doing the same thing in middle age just makes you nervous, not with vague puritan guilt but the more urgent worry that you're running out of time, a deadline you can feel in your cells.
Tim Kreider
#44. 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
#45. With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.
Terri Clark
#46. 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
#47. Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.
Ram Dass
#48. Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom.
Darrelle Revis
#49. 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
#50. Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no.
Ian McEwan
#51. When you suspect old age is catching up with you, live faster!
Benny Bellamacina
#52. We tried to make a beautiful world here, the voices mumble. There were those who saw the end of civilization as an opportunity to start over, to undo the errors of history
to relive mankind's awkward adolescence with all the wisdom of our modern age. But everything was happening so fast.
Isaac Marion
#53. Egdar Derby, mournfully pregnant with patriotism and middle age and imaginary wisdom. And so on.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#54. 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
#55. Wisdom is not guaranteed with age but is realized through one's sensitivity to humanity and the universe
I. Alan Appt
#56. With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
Cherie Lunghi
#57. One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
Anna Quindlen
#58. I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
Nina Totenberg
#59. Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
Brad Pitt
#60. Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves
Iain M. Banks
#61. 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
#62. I find it funny when people try to brag about being younger than me ... like having lived less is an accomplishment. Makes me want to pat them on the head, lol. I'm comfortable with who I am.
Michelle M. Pillow
#64. Get better with age or else age will get the better of you.
Habeeb Akande
#65. 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
#66. Scholars of the Hebrew bible define something they call wisdom literature and I would say clearly the poetry of wisdom is something that comes with age or that might come with age which has to do with reflecting on experience.
Edward Hirsch
#67. With age brings wisdom; with youth brings innovation. Combine the two and they are unstoppable.
Ocian Hamel-Smith
#69. The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
Joseph Joubert
#70. 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
#71. Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.
Augusten Burroughs
#72. I'm not sure bravery is something you acquire more of with age, like wisdom
but maybe here, in Dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom, the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear.
Veronica Roth
#73. Knowledge comes naturally with studying,
and with God's touch, instantly.
Wisdom comes naturally with age,
and with God's touch, immediately.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#74. Age brought wisdom, but it also brought a genuine gratitude for the happiness of sharing life with someone as much liked as loved.
Colleen McCullough
#75. 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
#76. I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
Laura Marling
#77. As you get older, you have your tribe of women that you grow and age gracefully with and you share wisdom with. That's your clan. That's your family. That's your strength.
Sheryl Crow
#78. Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
#79. Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
Rollo May
#80. 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
#81. Galadriel his sister went not with him to Nargothrond, for in Doriath dwelt Celeborn, kinsman of Thingol, and there was great love between them. Therefore she remained in the Hidden Kingdom, and abode with Melian, and of her learned great lore and wisdom concerning Middle-earth.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#82. With age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes age. I guess I too am growing older.
Amanda L. Moritz
#83. Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene
#84. I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.
When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifying.
Janet Turpin Myers
#85. Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.
Lawrence Weiner
#86. I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.
Hammurabi
#87. Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finely distilled wisdom and passion of seers and poets with which the modern young mind is tempered for the world that blows it to pieces.
Tennessee Williams
#88. Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.
John C. Maxwell
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