Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

With age comes wisdom.

I think with experience and age, you gain knowledge and wisdom.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

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.

The older you get, the more you learn.

But time growing old teaches all things.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

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

Nobody is born wise.

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

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

The years teach much which the days never know.

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

Age is irrelevant. Experience is relevant.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day