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Wisdom Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's…
- No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet…
- A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
- The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
- Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they…
- Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what do we teach…
- A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There…
- The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask…
- For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who…
- Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay…
- But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.
- Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
- When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means…
- The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.
- What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
- It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not…
- Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
- This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
- Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold