The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A wise man has doubts even in his best moments. Real truth is always accompanied by hesitations. If I could not hesitate,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Any truth is better than make-believe. Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had any thing to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
