A Quote by Kenny Rogers

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Kenny Rogers

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Wisdom Gain Grow Lose Off Older Spontaneity Trade

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Kenny Rogers
American - Musician
August 21, 1938 - March 20, 2020

There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.

Woody Allen

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

Kathy Mattea

I love being my age. I love getting older. What you lose in looks, you gain in wisdom. I might not be as physically beautiful on the outside today, but I'm much more beautiful on the inside. True beauty comes from inside.

Delvene Delaney

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

Gail Sheehy

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

John Buchan

I'm trying to grow older with wisdom.

Alek Wek

By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

Matthieu Ricard

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No. Well. In a sense. You see it's inevitable, or refuse to. You greet it or don't -- take it in trade, maybe, for all you're going to lose anyway. Or you can refuse, and have what you've got to lose snatched from you, and never take payment -- never see a trade is possible.

John Crowley

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Bob Marley

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

Claudette Colbert

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

Paulo Coelho

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

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