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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
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
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom. -- Publilius Syrus
I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age. -- Hammurabi
He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age. -- Publilius Syrus
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. -- Joseph Joubert
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. -- Joseph Joubert
I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me. -- Doseone
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. -- Roland Barthes
Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us. -- Carl Jung
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. -- Voltaire
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom. -- Solon
Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
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
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
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

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