I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Image
