Burning Spear Quotes

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

But time growing old teaches all things.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

The years teach much which the days never know.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

The older you get, the more you learn.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

It takes a long time to become young.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything.