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The notion that wisdom comes with age is ridiculed by the young people of today. They see senile fools or middle-aged failures or leaders whose people fall into newer and more numerous difficulties and conclude that they themselves not only know better but can do better. Yet the notion is not to be dismissed so lightly. There is a deep ground for its truth, too deep perhaps for common sight, and hence only for those of insight. The age which is grown into after many births, rather than many years, is mellow with wisdom quite naturally.

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 2 : Rebirth and Reincarnation > # 75