Experience Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

— Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

— Henry David Thoreau

Who is old enough to have learned from experience?

— Henry David Thoreau

Spring-an experience in immortality.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are older by faith than by experience.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are superior to the joy we experience.

— Henry David Thoreau

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly…

— Henry David Thoreau

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

— Henry David Thoreau

“How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?”

— Henry David Thoreau

The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.

— Henry David Thoreau

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

— Henry David Thoreau

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

— Henry David Thoreau

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old -…

— Henry David Thoreau

The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low…

— Henry David Thoreau

Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over…

— Henry David Thoreau

The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man sees only what concerns him… How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind…

— Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so…

— Henry David Thoreau

Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has…

— Henry David Thoreau

I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking,…

— Henry David Thoreau

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

— Henry David Thoreau

In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter…

— Henry David Thoreau

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

— Henry David Thoreau

We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

— Henry David Thoreau

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

— Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

— Henry David Thoreau

“God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.”

— Henry David Thoreau

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

— Henry David Thoreau

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

— Henry David Thoreau

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

— Henry David Thoreau