Best Old Wisdom Quotes

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

I like the old wisdom–puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

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.

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.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

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

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.

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