470 Quotations by Henry David Thoreau
- 181. It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
- 182. It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- 183. It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of ...
- 184. It is as hard to see oneself as to look backwards without turning around.
- 185. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- 186. It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, ...
- 187. It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
- 188. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
- 189. It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
- 190. It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
- 191. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track ...
- 192. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few ...
- 193. It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensi ...
- 194. It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
- 195. It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, ...
- 196. It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and another to hear.
- 197. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.
- 198. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- 199. It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
- 200. Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
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