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Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self. -- John Buchan
Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin. -- Reese Witherspoon
Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. -- Debra Winger
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. -- Debra Winger
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades. -- Xi Jinping
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world. -- Ammon Hennacy
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom. -- Publilius Syrus
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. -- Plautus
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone. -- Oscar Wilde
Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone. -- Garrison Keillor
Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom. -- Mal Fletcher
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. -- H. L. Mencken
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. -- H. L. Mencken
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. -- William Osler
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. -- Erik Erikson
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well. -- Ray LaMontagne
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. -- Mason Cooley
With age comes common sense and wisdom. -- Nas
As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age. -- Mason Cooley
When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom? -- Margaret Deland
Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age. -- Thomas Paine
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning. -- Anton Chekhov
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. -- Estelle Getty
Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly. -- Miriam Makeba
Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess. -- Evan Esar
Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time. -- Herbie Hancock
Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age. -- Rollo May
I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age. -- Hammurabi
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. -- Joseph Joubert
With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself. -- Cherie Lunghi
Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much. -- Lawrence Weiner
age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it. -- Joseph Murphy
He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age. -- Publilius Syrus
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. -- Charles Simmons
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution. -- Jessica Zafra
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. -- Charles Simmons
The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. -- Sherilyn Fenn
The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone. -- Conn Iggulden
The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom. -- George Bernard Shaw
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -- Tom Wilson
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
With age comes wisdom. You don't need big boobs to be feminine. Look at Liberace. -- Joan Rivers
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. -- Graham Greene
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. -- Thomas Dekker
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school." -- Thomas Dekker
Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age. -- Dan Fogelberg
Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age. -- Ram Dass
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. -- Joseph Joubert
Wisdom is not guaranteed with age but is realized through one's sensitivity to humanity and the universe -- I. Alan Appt
The years of wisdom in a man's age are where the true meanings of his life lie. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience. -- Christopher Paolini
I've always believed with age comes wisdom. And I find salt and pepper hair to be very attractive. -- Gideon Glick
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing. -- Edward Young
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. -- Roland Barthes
It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience. -- Gillian Linscott
Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us. -- Carl Jung
Wisdom is not measured by age ,Intelligence is not measured by grades ,Personality is not measured by what others say -- O.Z "Osama Alzoubi"
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. -- Voltaire
her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius. -- Gertrude Atherton
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom. -- Solon
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. -- Anna Quindlen
In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them. -- Umair Haque
Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age. -- Brian Jacques
Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered. -- Ambrose Bierce
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. -- Bias of Priene
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people. -- Terri Clark
What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom. -- Darrelle Revis
A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age. -- Nicholas G. Carr
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. -- William Feather
Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him. -- Sathya Sai Baba
I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition. -- E. J. Hughes
Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted. -- Robert A. Heinlein
It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters. -- Louise Penny
Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day. -- Brad Pitt
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have. -- Laura Marling
We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing. -- Robert Wilson Lynd
It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom. -- Stephanie Mills
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom. -- Saint Augustine
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope. -- Margaret Deland
In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. -- Bo Bennett
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place -- Abigail Van Buren
I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. -- Zoe Saldana
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. -- Paul Klee
I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange. -- Cherie Lunghi
Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself. -- Mary Roach
Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom. -- Nina Totenberg
Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom. -- George Carlin
There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom. -- S. I. Hayakawa
I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me. -- Doseone

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