Wisdom Quote by Harper Lee — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”

“Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”

“Don't you oh well me,sir," Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.”

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... 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, and you can look down the street and see the results.”

“La seule chose qui ne doive pas céder à la loi de la majorité est la conscience de l'individu”

“Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

“The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.”

“If you have used your knowledge to bring others down, you are building a Tower of Babel. But if you bow your knowledge to lift someone who is wounded, you are building the Kingdom of God.”

“Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.”