Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite. — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
