Larry Bird Quotes

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

I am no dummy, mate, that's for sure.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Age is irrelevant. Experience is relevant.

Even though you can have a youthful energy, it doesn't mean that you can't know a lot and bring a lot to the situation.

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.

Some people have nothing but experience.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

The older you get, the more you learn.

But time growing old teaches all things.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.