Henry David Thoreau quotes - page 3

The savage in man is never quite eradicated. (Henry David Thoreau)
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David Thoreau
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..
Henry David Thoreau
The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau
If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau)
Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
Henry David Thoreau
We were born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
Henry David Thoreau
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.
Henry David Thoreau
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Henry David Thoreau
No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. (Henry David Thoreau)
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David Thoreau
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau
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
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau