Inspirational Quotes by Henry David Thoreau · Page 5

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

— Henry David Thoreau

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

— Henry David Thoreau

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

— Henry David Thoreau

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

— Henry David Thoreau

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

— Henry David Thoreau

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

— Henry David Thoreau

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

— Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

— Henry David Thoreau

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

— Henry David Thoreau

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

— Henry David Thoreau

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to…

— Henry David Thoreau

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

— Henry David Thoreau

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

— Henry David Thoreau

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

— Henry David Thoreau

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

— Henry David Thoreau

Who is old enough to have learned from experience?

— Henry David Thoreau

Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived.

— Henry David Thoreau

I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

— Henry David Thoreau

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

— Henry David Thoreau

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

— Henry David Thoreau

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

— Henry David Thoreau

Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

— Henry David Thoreau

It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

— Henry David Thoreau

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

— Henry David Thoreau

We must have infinite faith in each other.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

— Henry David Thoreau

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

— Henry David Thoreau

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

— Henry David Thoreau

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.

— Henry David Thoreau

In their daily life, all are braver than they know.

— Henry David Thoreau

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

— Henry David Thoreau

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

— Henry David Thoreau

My profession is to always find God in nature.

— Henry David Thoreau