A Quote by Christopher Vogler

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

Christopher Vogler

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Capable Innocence Often Old Teaching Wise Young

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Christopher Vogler
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Born: 1949

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.

Nicolas Roeg

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Martin Luther

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Diogenes

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

Gilbert Highet

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

May Sarton

An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy, and who, because it is easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child.

Arnaud Desjardins

The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.

Aldous Huxley

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.

Stephen Colbert

Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.

Parker J. Palmer

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

Michael Crichton

Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.

Sara Shandler

You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.

Chris Brown

The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is, in my opinion, historical. As to the fabulous element in the Old Testament, I very much doubt if you would be wise to chuck it out.