Henry David Thoreau

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

Henry David Thoreau

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear."

Henry David Thoreau

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A goal is a dream taken seriously."

Henry David Thoreau

Dreams and Desires

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Human

Life and Death

Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Marriage

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage."

Henry David Thoreau

Human

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Law and Crime

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Who hears the fishes when they cry?"

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Nature and Animals

Pain and Tears

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse."

Henry David Thoreau "Journals"

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Success and Fame

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The heart is blind; but love is not blind. None of the gods is so discriminating."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Love

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Men have become tools of their tools."

Henry David Thoreau

Human

Science and Technology

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Love must be as much a light as a flame."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Love

Rating: 4.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

Henry David Thoreau

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 5.57 (Number of Voters: 7)

"The world is a cow that is hard to milk [...]"

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"If words were invented to conceal thought, I think that newspapers are a great improvement on a bad invention."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 6.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?"

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nature is goodness crystallized."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Good and Evil

Nature and Animals

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?"

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Education

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Life and Death

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

Henry David Thoreau

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right."

Henry David Thoreau

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy."

Henry David Thoreau

Courage and Fear

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."

Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge, Ignorance

Talent and Genius

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art."

Henry David Thoreau

Nature and Animals

Talent and Genius

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Art and Culture

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. "

Henry David Thoreau "Slavery in Massachusetts"

Freedom and Servitude

Human

Law and Crime

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship and Hostility

Truth and Falsity

Work and Laziness

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

Henry David Thoreau "Walden"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."

Henry David Thoreau

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."

Henry David Thoreau

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one."

Henry David Thoreau

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 7)

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

Henry David Thoreau

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"This world is but canvas to our imaginations."

Henry David Thoreau

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

Henry David Thoreau

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

Henry David Thoreau

Success and Fame

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!"

Henry David Thoreau

Time and Passing

Rating: 6.43 (Number of Voters: 7)