time and wisdom Quotes

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.