I hire many people that are older … and they have so much more wisdom.” Corcoran said. “There’s no circumstance that they run into that they haven’t seen before and have a solution for. So you take a lot less training, you have a lot more life experience and judgment.”

With age comes wisdom. Or at least experience.

One advantage of getting older - you become more decisive.

Older doesn’t necessarily mean wiser, Emile, but it does mean older. More...experienced. More adept at dealing with the galaxy, at...taking care of oneself.

The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.

I lose some, but win some as I grow older. I believe aging is more of a benefit for my career, because my experience is reflected in my acting.

There is little to be said of seniority. It is evident that when men grow older they acquire experience, unless they are completely idle, stupid, or too obstinate to learn anything. But there are many types of old men, and no one has ever maintained that, in order to pick out the best of the, it is enough to look at their birth certificates. Therefore appointments have to be made.

Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience — a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask.

I appreciate an old man's cautious opinion more than the valor of a young man.

I’m old, and if that has one advantage, it’s perspective: I’ve seen so much change during my lifetime.

Maybe that’s what old men are for. To make decisions that no young man can.” He was watching Gamache closely. “Or should have to.

If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen to 'em ... even if they're wrong, their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.

When you get older as a painter and you've got the opportunities, the talent and the good fortune and have been provided with everything for getting old, then it's fantastic, because the same brushstroke that you put down is more mature and more poignant than it was when you were young.

It is better to be An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng.