Wisdom Quotes

"The heart recognizes in a moment what the mind cannot grasp in years."

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

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words—Wait and Hope."

"One day you will understand that it is sometimes better to be deceived than to be undeceived."

"It is the mind that makes the body rich."

"The most difficult thing in life is to know oneself"

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

"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"

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

"If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks"

"Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had"

"The heart has its own wisdom that reason knows nothing of"

"Sanity is not statistical."

"We are all fools."

"I looked at him and some of the fundamental decencies are parceled out unequally at birth."

"The very aim of life seems to me to be to realize the good in oneself."

"The only things worth dying for, it seems, are things worth living for."

"Reason alone is insufficient to determine the meaning of life."

"The simple hell of it is, we've got to make the best of things."

"The condition of being underfed makes the whole worrying question of clothes almost irrelevant."

"You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices."

"That's the price we have to pay for stability."

"It is necessary to know what one is seeking."

"Wisdom consists in not pushing against fate."

"A man is what his thoughts make him."

"Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions."

"A man is crazy if he goes to a doctor when he's sick."

"Sorrow and suffering are the price of a sensitive heart."

"A heart that is capable of great love is also capable of great suffering."

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought."