Old Wisdom Quotes:

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.

- Confucius

source: "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

topic: Wisdom, Attitude, Crazy, Live And Learn, Knowledge And Wisdom

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

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

- Satchel Paige

source: Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

topic: Birthday, Baseball, Fun, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

- Jimi Hendrix

topic: Life, Music, Beautiful, Jazz Musician, Speaking My Mind

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Differences, Prayer Changes Things, Courage To Change

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

- Arthur Wing Pinero

topic: Positive, Deep Love, Age, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

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

- Alberto Giacometti

topic: Solitude, Grows, Older People, Old Age Humor, Old Birthday

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

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom, Older People, Old Age Humor

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.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

source: Source: www.sbnation.com

topic: Spring, School, Italian, Old Wisdom, Futuristic

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

- Doseone

source: Source: www.believermag.com

topic: Age, Wonderful, Modern, Old Wisdom

It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.17, Penguin

topic: Teacher, Fall, Mean, Old Wisdom, Divine Wisdom

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

- George Mackay Brown

topic: Shadow, Gathering, Old Wisdom, Clusters

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

- Mason Cooley

topic: Wisdom, Riddle, Pun, Old Wisdom

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

- Rex Reed

topic: Wise, Two, Vines, Old Wisdom, Two Lives

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.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

topic: Encouragement, Buddhist, Discovery, Old Wisdom

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.

- Larry Crabb

topic: Spiritual Direction, 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.

- H. P. Blavatsky

source: H. P. Blavatsky (1994). “Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase)”, p.583, Quest Books

topic: Teeth, World, Matter, Old Wisdom