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
sympathy knowledge intelligence
The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.
education children ignorance
The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.
knowledge consciousness bless
We bless and curse ourselves.
love knowledge doe
What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.
ignorance knowledge science
There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.
knowledge men evil
Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.
knowledge sight mediums
If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.
book knowledge biographies
We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.
knowledge sight law
Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.
reading journalism newspapers
Do not read the newspapers.
real reading littles
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.
children reading naps
Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap.
travel book reading
Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.
reading meditation hours
The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.