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  • How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

    Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)
  • Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

    Life   Music   Beautiful  
  • I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

    Wisdom   Riddle   Pun  
  • Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

  • Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  • The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

  • When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers who held (as their descendants now hold) that matter is but one of the correlations of spirit, then will the world of skeptics have a right to reject the old Wisdom, or throw the charge of obscenity in the teeth of the old religions.

    Teeth   World   Matter  
    H. P. Blavatsky (1994). “Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase)”, p.583, Quest Books
  • The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.

  • Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

    Teacher   Fall   Future  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.17, Penguin
  • God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

    "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.
  • Led by myself and two colleagues, the course offers a newly developed model of spiritual direction that draws on both the age-old wisdom of the church and more recent perspectives. I call it the Passion/Wisdom Model of Spiritual Direction, and I see it as offering the opportunity for our interior worlds and supernatural reality to meet.

  • I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

    Age   Wonderful   Modern  
    Source: www.believermag.com
  • The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

    H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.
  • A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

    Wise   Two   Vines  
  • By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

    Wise   Wisdom   Attitude  
    "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.
  • My high school had been a renovated old hospital, so when I first came to the UCLA campus in the spring of 1965, I was immediately impressed by the classic northern Italian architecture that was mixed with futuristic ultra-modern buildings. The classic architecture gave it the heft of old wisdom while the modernistic look inspired hope for the future.

    Spring   School   Italian  
    Source: www.sbnation.com
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