What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.
Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.
I was the eldest of five children, and although I never saw myself as any kind of leader, as the eldest, like it or not, you have some power inherent in that position.
I was the eldest child, so I know how it feels to have attention shared with a sibling.
I wasn't lonely as a child. I was the eldest of four and always had lots of people around me.
Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.
The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.
Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.
Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.
Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.