Quotes About Wisdom

I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say.

It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

The interior life is often stupid.

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, but you'll have some common themes.

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

Don't let your age control your life... Let your life control your age.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

The group of stupid people collectively treats or makes an intelligent amongst them look like duffer and a fool living in a big network of enlightened minds even starts behaving sensibly in life.

When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

Achievements of life are momentary, but realizations are longer lasting.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.

Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.