I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Children also have artistic ability and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom innocence with understanding and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.