Henry David Thoreau's Quotes

Henry David Thoreau's Quotes 309

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level...

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my...

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when...

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to...

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why...

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better...

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation...

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and...

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love...

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude...

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Live the life you've dreamed.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to...

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to...

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and...

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he...

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart;...

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