Pearls Of Wisdom By Atticus Finch

By Deepti Sam
To Kill A Mockingbird quotes
If there’s one book that I would recommend anyone, anytime, it is To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. This is no Dan Brown where you can’t wait to get to the end, or Harry Potter where you are transported to a whole new world of spells and spellbinding magic. This book is just an ordinary collection of everyday things that gradually transpires into something truly extraordinary. 

Set in the late 1930s, the story revolves around a man called Atticus Finch and his two children, and is neatly woven around the country life of the fictitious Maycomb County in Alabama, US. The narrative, described by Atticus' daughter aged six, invites us to take a fresh look at the world and visualize it from a child's perspective. It also evokes a certain sense of nostalgia as one could easily reminiscence their childhood. 

Here are a few lines from the book spoken by Atticus Finch - modified in places to make better sense - that perhaps explain why the book is on almost every list of must-read books on the internet :
  1. They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions, but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
  2. It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is. It doesn’t hurt you.
  3. I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
  4. What Mr. Radley did was his own business. It might seem peculiar to us, but it does not seem peculiar to him. If he wanted to come out, he would. If he wanted to stay inside his own house, he had the right to stay inside free from the attentions of inquisitive children.
  5. You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view, until you climb into their skin and walk around in it.
  6. It’s different this time. This time we aren’t fighting the Yankees, we’re fighting our friends. But remember that no matter how bitter things get, they’re still our friends and this is still our home.
  7. When a child asks you something, answer them. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles them.
  8. So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, but that day you saw something come between them and reason. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads - they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
  9. Jem (the son) is trying hard to forget something, but what he is really doing is storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he is able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
  10. You can choose your friends but you sure can’t choose your family, and they’re still kin to you whether you acknowledge them or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
  11. Sometimes I think I’m a total failure as a parent, but I’m all they’ve got. Before Jem looks at anyone else, he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
And this one is my favourite :

    12. You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.

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