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Learning Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
- Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
- All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
- We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of…
- If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language…
- Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.
- There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
- It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
- It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
- Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
- But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
- I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from…
- No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
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