Highlights

What is Age? What is Wisdom? How the zeal of Youth is tempered by the wisdom of Age!

Quotations for Consideration

“In Youth we learn : in Age we understand” – Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach

“Life can be a process of Growing or of Ageing… the choice is ours! Ageing is adding years to our Life. Growing is adding Life to our years!” – Anon.

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” – Karen Kaiser Clark.

“No wise man ever wished to be young” – Jonathan Swift

“Would I wish to be “young” again? No, for I have too much, to wish to lose it. I am a far more valuable person today than I was 50 years ago, or 40 years ago, or 30, 20 or even 10. I have learnt much since I was 70. I believe I can honestly say that I have learnt more in the last 10 years, than I have learnt in any previous decade.” – Pearl S. Buck on her 80th birthday.

“You can be young only once. But you can always be immature” – Dave Barry

“You are young, my son, and, as the years go by time will change and even reverse many of your opinions. Refrain therefore a while from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.” – Plato.

“I am not young enough to know everything” – Oscar Wilde

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young”. – Henry Ford

“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you” – Aldous Huxley.

“You have got to get up every morning with determination, if you are going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer.

“Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to oppor-tunity and success.” – Burt Lawlor.

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated der-elicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge.

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” – Albert Einstein.

“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” – Alexander Hamilton.

“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass… it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene.

Key Concepts

• Age, usually measured in Chronological terms (years), can also, be measured in Biological terms (fitness / health) or in Cognitive terms (mental acuity).
• Wisdom accrues out of Knowledge, Experience and Maturity. Knowledge from learning. Experience from mistakes made while doing. Maturity from empathy and control of emotions and desires.
• As the average life span increases and more avenues for learning are available, more people have more opportunities to attain to greater wisdom as their years go by.

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