Aged Wisdom Quotes

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

The older I get, the more I think birds are the best musicians on the planet.

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the true force, but it is too rarely lucid. Sometimes it has a triumphant liking for what is now, and the pugnacious broadside of paradox may please it. But there is a degree in innovation which they who have not lived very much cannot attain. And yet who knows if the stern greatness of present events will not have educated and aged the generation which to-day forms humanity's effective frontier? Whatever our hope may be, if we did not place it in youth, where should we place it?

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

Tony Campolo and I both speak a lot, and we began to notice that there were some crowds of old folks that desperately needed some youthful energy, and there were other crowds of young folks that desperately needed some aged wisdom.