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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Oxford Essential Quotations Dictionary
Tagged: Vain, write, Life, realization
“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, Walden and Civil Disobedience
Tagged: History Quotes, Inspirational Quotes
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Civil Disobedience
Tagged: present, Living In The Present, Appreciation
“To be a philosopher is to solve some of the problems of life–not only theoretically but practically.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: Conclusion
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: Autumn, october, Fall, Happiness
“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.”
— Henry David Thoreau, TOP 10 BEST HENRY DAVID THOREAU QUOTES | Famous Top 10 Quotes
Tagged: lost, Adventure, Taking Risks
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: Truth, Honesty
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau’s idea of being lost
Tagged: Learning Experience, Self-Growth, Lessons in Life
“We need the tonic of wildness... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: How To Think, Nature
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: How To Think, Nature
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Summer Quotes • Quotelicious
Tagged: Summer, Summertime
“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.”
— Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Tagged: Human Intercourse, Tragedy, Misunderstanding, Silence
“You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: Life, charity
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: Literary Fame
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Henry David Thoreau : A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers/Walden; Or, Life in the Woods/The Maine Woods/Cape Cod(Library of America)
Tagged: Friendship, Words, Language, Meaning
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: seeing, looking vs. seeing, Looking, witnessing, beholding, perceiving, believing, Enlightened
“I desire to speak somewhere without bounds.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: Speaking Up
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: Obstacles, emotions
“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: Life
“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. ”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: Minimalism & Simplicity, Philosophy
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors 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 will be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: Obstacles
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