I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. — 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
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. — 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
With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men… — 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
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
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of… — 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
There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I have learned that the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-handand by the halves, and is poorauthority. We are most interested when science… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little… — 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
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
