Light Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

— Henry David Thoreau

Let nothing come between you and the light.

— Henry David Thoreau

The sun is but a morning star.

— Henry David Thoreau

Why look in the dark for light?

— Henry David Thoreau

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

— Henry David Thoreau

Love must be as much a light, asit is a flame.

— Henry David Thoreau

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

— Henry David Thoreau

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

— Henry David Thoreau

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

— Henry David Thoreau

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

— Henry David Thoreau

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

— Henry David Thoreau

“There is more day left to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist…

— Henry David Thoreau

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out…

— Henry David Thoreau

When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find,…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge…

— Henry David Thoreau

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light… They are too pure to have…

— Henry David Thoreau

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in…

— Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be…

— Henry David Thoreau

The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“On Ponkawtasset, since, we took our way, Down this still stream we took our meadowy way, A poet wise has settled, whose…

— Henry David Thoreau

But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past…

— Henry David Thoreau

I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We walked in so pure and bright a light, gilding the withered grass and leaves, so softly and serenely bright, I thought…

— Henry David Thoreau

Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a…

— Henry David Thoreau

The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.…

— Henry David Thoreau

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