Neil Young Quotes

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

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

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

I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.

As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

A bit of perspective and life experience isn't a bad thing.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

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.

Years are not important, my dear.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

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.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

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

But time growing old teaches all things.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.