Wisdom Quotes

"Doubt is the beginning of wisdom."

"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world."

"Enthusiasm is not a suitable response to anything."

"I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas at the same time."

"We are all fools."

"It is not understanding that is required, but feeling."

"I have learned that I am neither as great nor as insignificant as I believed"

"In the depths of despair, we discover our true nature"

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

"It's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"Before Jem was born, I was an invalid for a number of years. I was selfish. I was the last person in the world I wanted to be."

"Nothing is more private than the human heart."

"You must never be frightened by what you see in newspapers."

"Atticus was right. One time he said you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

"I remember nothing of my mother, so I cannot miss her."

"You're not being very rational, Scout."

"Scout, you mustn't be deceived by the things you have learned."

"I have suffered too much to hate."

"The heart, like fruit, ripens in darkness"

"The soul starves on bread alone, but dies on luxury too"

"We are all complicit in our own unhappiness"

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time."

"The world's a hard place, Nick. It's a hard, complicated place."

"I have come to understand that poverty is not a virtue but a trial."

"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."

"Youth is always right and age is always wrong."

"She had wanted everything and deserved nothing"

"Despair is the privilege of those who see everything clearly."