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
men silence he-man
The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.
communication men silence
There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.
fall men silence
As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to all men, at all times, and in all places. She is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly. Creation has not displaced her, but is her visible framework and foil. All sounds are her servants, and purveyors, proclaiming not only that their mistress is, but is a rare mistress, and earnestly to be sought after.
silence individuality speech
The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.
faith communication silence
We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.
laughter doctors silence
Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.
silence
What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.
thinking echoes silence
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
years silence three
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
silence speech conversation
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.
disappointment silence personality
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.
sad live-life silence
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
night silence musical
The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.
american-author fine house planet tolerable
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?