Active Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in…

— Thomas Huxley

My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged at the…

— Vandana Shiva

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me…

— Esther Williams

I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the…

— Henry David Thoreau

A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever…

— Henry David Thoreau

If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon…

— Henry David Thoreau

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed…

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

— Henry David Thoreau

Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even…

— Henry David Thoreau

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency…

— Henry David Thoreau

A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates,…

— Henry David Thoreau