Looks Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

We must look a long time before we can see

— Henry David Thoreau

Why look in the dark for light?

— Henry David Thoreau

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

— Henry David Thoreau

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

— Henry David Thoreau

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

— Henry David Thoreau

Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?

— Henry David Thoreau

The question is not what you look at--but how you look, and whether you see.

— Henry David Thoreau

As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that…

— Henry David Thoreau

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated…

— Henry David Thoreau

If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined…

— 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

Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated…

— Henry David Thoreau

Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.

— Henry David Thoreau

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you…

— Henry David Thoreau

Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me…

— 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

I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap…

— Henry David Thoreau

We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is…

— Henry David Thoreau

To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political…

— Henry David Thoreau

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate…

— Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not…

— Henry David Thoreau

As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely…

— Henry David Thoreau

America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be…

— Henry David Thoreau

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his…

— Henry David Thoreau

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I…

— Henry David Thoreau

Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old…

— Henry David Thoreau

We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose…

— 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 moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so…

— Henry David Thoreau

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which…

— Henry David Thoreau

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground…

— Henry David Thoreau

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must…

— Henry David Thoreau

If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen…

— Henry David Thoreau

Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed.…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what…

— Henry David Thoreau