Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

I used to gamble when I was young. I'm wiser now.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”

You need to be in danger; otherwise, you get old.

When you're a young boy, you don't think; you just go for it. When you have more experience, you have to play more with your head.

Curiosity is the other side of caution.

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.