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5021 quotesBe true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Honesty
Henry David Thoreau
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Books - Reading
Henry David Thoreau
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Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Passion
Henry David Thoreau
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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry David Thoreau
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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
Experience
Henry David Thoreau
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Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
Self-knowledge
Henry David Thoreau
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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
Farming and Farmers
Henry David Thoreau
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Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry David Thoreau
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I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
War
Henry David Thoreau
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Silence
Henry David Thoreau
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Determination
Henry David Thoreau
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I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
Vision
Henry David Thoreau
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Solitude
Henry David Thoreau
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Solitude
Henry David Thoreau
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It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.
Truth
Henry David Thoreau
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Let nothing come between you and the light.
Control
Henry David Thoreau
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Life and Living
Henry David Thoreau
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Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
Travel and Tourism
Henry David Thoreau
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
Morality
Henry David Thoreau
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People die of fright and live of confidence.
Fear
Henry David Thoreau
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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
Politicians and Politics
Henry David Thoreau
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Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
Society
Henry David Thoreau
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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
Mediocrity
Henry David Thoreau
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The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
Mistakes
Henry David Thoreau
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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Conflict
Henry David Thoreau
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun