Old Wisdom Quotes

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.

You've got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.

Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.

When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers who held (as their descendants now hold) that matter is but one of the correlations of spirit, then will the world of skeptics have a right to reject the old Wisdom, or throw the charge of obscenity in the teeth of the old religions.

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.