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
knowledge learning perception
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
learning light soul
With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
senior learning years
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
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But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
reading book learning
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
respect learning men
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
life educational learning
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
life knowledge learning
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
inspirational giving-up learning
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
teaching learning flow
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
inspirational learning stubborn
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
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What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
man meet pleased wild wish
I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.
great mankind poets works
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them