Wisdom and Experience Quotes

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.

I wear my age with pride.

You can't do an awful lot about getting older but you shouldn't let it stop you from doing what you want to do.

We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.

All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. The shared experiences, the wisdom so freely proffered by others, in words and in example, rarely swayed me for long. Came another day and the import was gone, and only the echo of the laughter remained. Experience was a revolving sun in the warmth of which I was content to bask.

The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.

I call myself a geriatric starlet.

Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.

Old is the new sexy.