Harry S. Truman Quotes

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

Advice is a form of nostalgia.

There are things to learn from people who have already done what you're trying to do.

When I pictured myself in the NBA, I always imagined myself with an older guy taking me under his wing.

I learned a lot from my father.

It's always beneficial taking advice from Dhoni.

I have authentic wisdom to share with others.

When you're the younger guy, you're kind of only looking after yourself. Obviously you have to be a bit selfish in terms of what you're doing. But when you're the older guy you have to look out for the younger guys as well. If they're making mistakes, they need help, then you help them.

I've learned from the greatest people, and I've got wonderful things to pass on.

Anyone who has been successful and has knowledge to share is a potential mentor.

I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight.

My mentors were very good.

You see guys that have been in the league for a long time and have taken that opportunity to not only make their game better but to make the people around them better. And to help them know things that maybe you wish you had known.

When you get a bit older, you gain more experience, and you try to put it to good use, to help yourself in different ways and also the young players.

I had a lot of veteran guys who taught me things.

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

Though old and wise, yet still advise.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

Rich with the spoils of time.