Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreauwas an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 July 1817
CountryUnited States of America
care share seems
Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.
hearing speak loud
You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.
may facts
A fact may blossom into a truth.
men lasts neighbor
I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.
beautiful ignorance needs
We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like. Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance, what we will call Beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance? What we call knowledge is often our positive ignorance; ignorance our negative knowledge.
horse cat poet
Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?
circles luxury stills
Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.
action consent dissent
Dissent without action is consent.
men people tough-times
Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.
mean technology ends
Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.
things-in-life interesting littles
The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.
men animal half
A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
thinking order ignorant
I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been said by his predecessors. He will take his place in a regular order, and substantially add his own knowledge to the knowledge of previous generations.
events news news-coverage
News Coverage!! As news expose rather than cover events.