Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Experience, Wealth

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Wisdom, Ignorance

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, May, Chance

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

Society, Put, House

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau

Single, Worth, Interest

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Clothes, Beware, Require

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
Henry David Thoreau

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Henry David Thoreau

Justice, Sweet, Injustice

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau

Live, Around, Turn

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, True, Keeping

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Hate, Others

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David Thoreau

Done, Speak, Write

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau

Heart, Rather, Sensitive

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau

Women, Gossip, Old

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau

Yourself, Friends, Thoughts

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau

Money, Soul, Necessity

The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau

Beauty, Moral, Perception

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Henry David Thoreau

After, Sin, Blush

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau

Old, Generation, Laughs

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau

True, Culture, Sheep

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau

Himself, Fate, Thinks

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Henry David Thoreau

Thought, Whole, Within

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Henry David Thoreau

Squirrel, Earnest, Dies

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Henry David Thoreau

Wise, Born, Regretting

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12, 1817

Died: May 6, 1862

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