The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exception

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. – Johann Georg Hamann

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This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdoms school. – Thomas Dekker

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I dont think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. – Joseph Roux

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So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. – The Eagles, “Already Gone”

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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one – You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. – Abbe Pierre

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