Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
I've never thought intelligence was age-related.
I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.
You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.
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