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
fool mind
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it
educate experiment learn mathematics minds trying youths
How could youths better learn to live than by once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would educate their minds as much as mathematics
education children mind
I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.
inspirational night mind
It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.
eye men mind
A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!
work exercise mind
What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.
eye hands mind
The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.
common-sense mind body
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
mind walden-pond endeavor
Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.
effort mind action
By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.
mind may leisure
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.
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In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
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The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.
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I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.