Top 100 Wisdom Of Age Quotes
#1. The wisdom of age defeats the strength of youth.
Ginn Hale
#2. 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
#4. If man had the wisdom of age in youth and the vitality of youth in age, then he would be an eternally wise young man. (Feb 2003)
James King
#5. Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
Ezra Taft Benson
#6. The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.
Conn Iggulden
#7. 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
#8. The thoughts of youth,' he continued, 'are bright lights that shine forth like the meteors that oft make brilliant the sky, but the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailor may depend upon them to steer his course.
George S. Clason
#9. I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again
I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter ...
Clive Barker
#10. 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
#12. Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene
#13. Knowledge was never simply born in the human mind; it was always reborn. The relaying of wisdom from one age to the next, this cycle of rebirths: this was wisdom.
Salman Rushdie
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Ivy Gilbert
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.
Joan D. Chittister
#25. 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
#26. When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom.
Terraine Francois
#27. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.
Umair Haque
#34. Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Charles Simmons
#35. 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
#36. Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
Anthony Trollope
#37. Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.
Stephen Covey
#38. Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna , and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.
Roger Bacon
#39. 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
#40. I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.
Ray Lamontagne
#41. Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!
Linda Sue Park
#42. The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.
Nirmala Srivastava
#43. 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
#45. I have a big collection of quotation programs ... In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.
Jerry Pournelle
#46. 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
#47. And when youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years.
George S. Clason
#48. 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
#49. How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity.
Barbara Pym
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.
Brian Jacques
#58. Life had engraved such beauty in those lines of age and wisdom ...
Rosslyn Elliott
#59. In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom ... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
Edward Young
#60. 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
#61. Knowledge pertains to knowing and to intelligence while wisdom has to do with the soundness of judgment.
Pearl Zhu
#62. I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.
Doseone
#63. I understand that there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It's too bad that the two can't come together because I do think that people are dropped from what they're really good at too soon.
Rene Russo
#64. There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.
Sophocles
#65. The energy of our thoughts, words, actions, and emotions collectively create the frequency of our vibrational aura.
Alaric Hutchinson
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.
Milan Kundera
#71. 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
#72. Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed
Joe Strummer
#73. Age cannot determine the power of wisdom and stupid humans as we all are, think; more older the better wisdom.
Santosh Kalwar
#74. This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls.
Bryan Islip
#76. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee
#81. Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.
Mal Fletcher
#82. 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
#83. Treasure the wisdom of old age.
Learn from elder people and be wise.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#84. 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
#85. India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion
and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age
Jawaharlal Nehru
#86. 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
#87. Beauty is not the flawless perfection of youth, but the fine lines, scars, and wisdom which only living can give you.
Reyna Pryde
#88. I ... understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!
Jennifer Aniston
#90. Youth is to wander! Adult is to act! Age is to assimilate the beauty of thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#91. 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
#92. No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Ernest Hemingway,
#93. Living is a kind of skill. The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time.
Atul Gawande
#94. Although many people erroneously interpreted apocalypse as a cataclysmic end of the world, the word literally signified an "unveiling," predicted by the ancients to be that of great wisdom. The coming age of enlightenment.
Dan Brown
#95. 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
Charles Dickens
#96. In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.
Kevin Spacey
#97. The biggest challenge for a man is to attain the wisdom of 80 years of age in youth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
Joseph Joubert
#99. 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
#100. 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
