A Quote by Romesh Gunesekera
The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.
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Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!
My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.
You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.
It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.
As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like older and wiser and respect your elders, promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.
There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.
As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.
You can't keep doing the same things and expecting the same results. So as you get older, you should get wiser. You learn to invest. You learn what to invest in. Then you start having kids and life changes.
When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
I'm older, and I'm better. I'm not old, but I'm older and wiser.
What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter how brief-contains a priceless lesson allowing you to grow and evolve into your grandest self?
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