#wisdo

A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better. ↗

— Jayleigh Cape

#experience #inspirational #jayleigh-cape #wisdom #youth

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#wisdom #age

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#fear #jodi-picoult #lone-wolf #wisdom #age

The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one’s realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry. ↗

— Josef Pieper

#human-nature #humanity #inspirational #truth #wisdom

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness. ↗

— Wasif Ali Wasif

#sufi-wisdom #age

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

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

He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed him. ↗

— James Joyce

#sadness #wisdom #age

Angry people are not always wise. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #wisdom #anger