Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

With the ancient [person] is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.

I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

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

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

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

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

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

The young have strength; the old, knowledge

The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.

I associate wisdom and grace with age.

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.

With age comes wisdom.

When you get a little older you get a little wiser.