Top 100 Wisdom Age Quotes
#1. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
Estelle Getty
#2. 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
#3. CANDLE WISDOM
If you knew
what you will know
when your candle
has burnt low,
it would greatly
ease your plight
while your candle
still burns bright.
Piet Hein
#4. For the New Age community, 'ancient' knowledge is always considered unimpeachable and unimprovable, just as a diverse range of beliefs from Eastern mysticism to UFOs, energy dowsing to cryptozoology, are - though mutually contradictory - unquestionably accepted in the name of open-mindedness.
Mark Crutchfield
#5. 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
#6. I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.
Sharon Osbourne
#8. It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#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
#11. There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.
Edgar Lee Masters
#12. Age does not bring wisdom, Ben, but it does give perspective ... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.
Robert A. Heinlein
#13. The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler
#14. 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
#15. With age comes wisdom. You don't need big boobs to be feminine. Look at Liberace.
Joan Rivers
#16. The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.
Nirmala Srivastava
#17. To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.
Samuel Johnson
#18. How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?
Marty Rubin
#19. To have the spirit of youth and the wisdom from age. Is to have used the eternal fountain of life within our very souls. Not for an instant but for a lifetime. Amen.
Ivan Alexander Pozo-Illas
#20. Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.
Megan Crane
#21. Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Plautus
#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. We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.
Criss Jami
#24. I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that.
Richard Dawkins
#25. True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#26. Nature is grand and is made of dream-like elements.
All is one, and connected,
making an incredible journey, becoming one and united, eternally.
MARTH
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.
Brian Jacques
#30. Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.
Mary Roach
#31. Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
Garrison Keillor
#32. We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#33. Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
Ezra Taft Benson
#34. The energy of our thoughts, words, actions, and emotions collectively create the frequency of our vibrational aura.
Alaric Hutchinson
#35. A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.
Nicholas G. Carr
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Contrary to the tenets of conventional wisdom, viral ideas and campaigns were not first transmitted via the electronic media of the Internet age. Their ideological forebears lived and replicated in the host coffee-houses, inns and taverns of the early eighteenth-century.
Gavin John Adams
#39. 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
#40. There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later.
Nikki Rowe
#41. Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
Zora Neale Hurston
#42. 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
#43. The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#44. Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.
Evan Esar
#45. 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
#46. Treasure the wisdom of old age.
Learn from elder people and be wise.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#47. 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
#48. It's amazing how when we were young we wanted to know what it felt like to be older and when we are older we want the feeling of being younger again.
DeWayne Owens
#49. 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
#51. For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress
to the future.
Erich Maria Remarque
#52. The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.
Chanakya
#53. Living is a kind of skill. The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time.
Atul Gawande
#54. Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.
Miriam Makeba
#55. It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.
Philip Moeller
#56. The biggest challenge for a man is to attain the wisdom of 80 years of age in youth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. It's time we put the bud back in Buddha and the sap back in Homo sapiens, and end this age of folly - this folly-age!
S.J. Cameron
#59. I've always believed with age comes wisdom. And I find salt and pepper hair to be very attractive.
Gideon Glick
#60. 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
#61. My dear Guiliano," he said, "how is it that you and Don Croce do not join together to rule Sicily? He has the wisdom of age, you have the idealism of youth.
Mario Puzo
#62. Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
Aeschylus
#63. 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
#64. We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.
Tiffany Madison
#65. Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#66. Time and age have brought not wisdom, as they are supposed to do, but confusion, and a broadening incomprehension, each year laying down another ring of nesience.
John Banville
#67. 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
#68. A 'caring' judgment is still a judgment. And any form of judgment creates blocks and stagnation.
Alaric Hutchinson
#69. 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
#70. Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
Roland Barthes
#71. Wisdom ... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Anton Chekhov
#72. 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
#73. I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
Charles Dickens
#74. Age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.
Joseph Murphy
#75. I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
Nina Totenberg
#76. 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
#77. A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better.
Jayleigh Cape
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Get better with age or else age will get the better of you.
Habeeb Akande
#81. The extraction of deep wisdom can be done at any age, and if we are to love the time of our life, it must be. Imbedded within us is the deeper story we came to live, and the core issue at every age for any awakened human being is the extent to which we are living that story in the present moment.
Carolyn Baker
#82. He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.
Marc Maron
#83. I love being my age. I love getting older. What you lose in looks, you gain in wisdom. I might not be as physically beautiful on the outside today, but I'm much more beautiful on the inside. True beauty comes from inside ...
Delvene Delaney
#86. 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
#87. Do you want me to tell you what I give a shit about at age sixty-five', Cullen said, 'and what I don't give a shit about?'
(page 262)
Elmore Leonard
#88. Chastisement for errors past
Wisdom brings to age at last.
Sophocles
#89. Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.
Debra Winger
#90. It took me a long time to learn how to be brave enough to put myself out there and try everything, no matter how strange or silly. If I can impart that same wisdom to other folks - no matter what age - it would be an honor.
Alethea Kontis
#91. 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
#92. Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
#93. Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it's all the rage
Benny Bellamacina
#94. Age doesn't always constitute wisdom. And people grow up on different schedules, one from the next.
Gregory Maguire
#95. Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.
Sophocles
#96. The person of wisdom is the person of years.
Edward Young
#97. Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.
Benjamin Disraeli
#98. 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
#99. I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this
exposure to every conceivable aspect of life - wisdom so rarely enters the picture. We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then
we become bitter and isolated as we age.
Douglas Coupland
#100. 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
