Henry David Thoreau Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

177 Famous Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”
Actors and acting Quotes
“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character”
Adventure Quotes
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
Adversity Quotes
“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
Belief Quotes
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
Books Quotes
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all”
Books Quotes
“Things do not change; we change.”
Change Quotes
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
Cheating Quotes
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
Cute Quotes
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
Cute friendship Quotes
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.”
Death and dying Quotes
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
Direction Quotes
“Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget the milestone.”
Direction Quotes
“When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.”
Discovery Quotes
“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”
Distrust Quotes
“If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Dreams Quotes
“Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”
Dreams Quotes
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
Enthusiasm Quotes
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.”
Expectation Quotes
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Fame Quotes
“Fire is the most tolerable third party”
Fire Quotes
“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”
Foolishness Quotes
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
Generations Quotes
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
Goodness Quotes
“All good things are wild, and free.”
Goodness Quotes
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