Character Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image ““How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?”” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Experience Growth Philosophy of Mind
“Seeds are of no value until they are planted, and wishes are of no value until a man shapes a strong purpose in his… — Herbert N Cassion Copy Share Image
“How readily and thinly we procure these fictional selves, deceiving the world and what we might have become if only we hadn't got in… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every seed has a story, but only the ones that make it from the ground get to tell theirs.” — Eduvie Donald Copy Share Image
“But in exchange for what our imagination leads us to expect and we give ourselves so much futile trouble trying to find, life gives… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A creative mind generates a rare seed that leads to a rare harvest.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are like a disease, one single thought not contained properly, can fester and breed and before you know it, a multitude of others… — Clive Barry Copy Share Image
“While there may be many things in life you wish to harvest not every seed you plant will grow.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are apples on the tree, Not meant for anyone in particular, But they end up belonging To the one who takes them.” — Hugo von Hoffmannstahl 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image