Wisdom Quotes

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger"

"Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism"

"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated"

"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself."

"Shoot all the blue jays 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."

"That's the only thing that made me think Tom was guilty."

"Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand."

"Do the best you can with the lot you've been given."

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

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

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

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

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens or nest in corncribs; they just sing their hearts out."

"It's not honourable to fight when you know you're licked before you start."

"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness"

"Our world is not the same as Othello's world"

"To the dog the man is a god."

"All our troubles come from our errors and our passion."

"I'm not insane, you are."

"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim."

"The consciousness of life is superior to life itself"

"That's the real crazy thing."

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

"You've got to make the best of things the way they are."

"There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one."

"I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."

"You see, when you're old as I am you'll find that most of the things you worried about never happened."