#dom

Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise. ↗

— Miguel Syjuco

#age

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination. ↗

— Susan Ertz

#anger

Those who are skilled in combat do not become angry. The wise win before the fight and the ignorant fight to win. ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#war #wisdom #age

I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip. ↗

— Linda Medley

#children #giants #gossip #profound #wisdom

Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#folly #wisdom #age

Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits of the earth, and you hoped that, following you, man, too, would remain with God, having no need of miracles. But you did not know that as soon as man rejects miracles, he will at once reject God as well, for man seeks not so much God as miracles. And since man cannot bear to be left without miracles, he will go and create new miracles for himself... Oh, there will be centuries of free reason, of their science and anthropophagy... Freedom, free reason, and science willl lead them into such a maze, and confront them with such miracles and insoluble mysteries, that some of them, unruly and ferocious, will exterminate themselves. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#free-will #freedom #philosophy #sublime #age

The biggest challenge for a man is to attain the wisdom of 80 years of age in youth! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#age

Get better with age or else age will get the better of you. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#wisdom #age

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #the-strength-of-a-woman #true-strength #wisdom-quotes #women

Wisdom comes through suffering or old age. ↗

— Lesley Pearse

#georgia #lesley #old #pearse #suffering