Author

Henry David Thoreau

152 quotes Popular first.

1 0
“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 0
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”— Henry David Thoreau
1 1
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”— Henry David Thoreau