« All Sense Quotes · Henry David Thoreau's Page
Sense Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -…
- We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we…
- Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.
- The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.
- Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they…
- Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural…
- Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit…
- One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.
- My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts…
- What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies…
- 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…
- A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not…
- When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my…
- Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken…
- Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral…
- There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
- Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and…
- Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees,…
- If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a…
- I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -…
- This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.
- I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life…
- Far in the night, as we were falling asleep on the bank of the Merrimack, we heard some tyro beating a drum incessantly, in preparation…
More Sense Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden