That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless beside being… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Siempre he deplorado no ser tan sabio como lo era el día en que nací” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge… — 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
“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true… — 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
