Henry David Thoreau quotes - page 2

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. (Henry David Thoreau)
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Simplify, simplify, simplify. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. View quote
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Truths and roses have thorns about them. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. (Henry David Thoreau)
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. View quote
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It's never to late to give up your prejudices. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. View quote
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The universe is wider than our views of it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. (Henry David Thoreau)
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. View quote
Henry David Thoreau