Wisdom is the ability to look forward and backward, to see both sides of life with no illusions. — Dr. Alexander Lowen
One doesn't have to be old to acquire some wisdom.
It would develop naturally if the knowledge we learned was integrated with the understanding we had, if our heads were truly one with our bodies.
But this is not the way of our culture, which splits these aspects of man. To gain wisdom today one has to have lived long enough to be able to look back into the past with some objectivity…