Wisdom Loss Quotes

The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.

Wisdom is dead. Long live information.

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form - has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

There is no fool like an old fool.

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.

The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.