Wisdom Quotes

"The heart knows truths the mind cannot comprehend."

"A body that don't know right from wrong ain't got no conscience."

"A conscience is a most troublesome thing."

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."

"I didn't take no stock in dead people"

"What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right?"

"Superstition ain't always a bad thing"

"What's the use of the conch if I can't blow it?"

"We need shelters and fresh water."

"I see things and I wonder why."

"We should have a signal fire."

"Beth is my conscience."

"It's nice to have accomplishments and be elegant, but not to show off."

"Good works are the real diamonds of a woman."

"We must learn to live our lives in a fuller, richer way."

"Beware of false prophets"

"I have this disease late in life. It's a very sudden disease."

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

"I am glad now of the pain I have suffered, for it has taught me how to pity others."

"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."

"The mind is a powerful weapon against evil."

"We know what we're going to do."

"There's no real smoke without fire."

"There warn't anything to do, now, but to look out sharp for the town, and not pass it without seeing it."

"If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does, I would pison him."

"Persons is always doing it wrong."

"I couldn't ever feel bad till after, and then I would."

"A body could take his time and use judgment about it."

"A person's conscience ain't made of the right material."

"Take your time about it."