Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Intelligence
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
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The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.
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It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,--he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites our admiration expands us. The Indian, who can find his way so wonderfully in the woods, possesses an intelligence which the white man does not,--and it increases my own capacity, as well as faith, to observe it. I rejoice to find that intelligence flows in other channels than I knew. It redeems for me portions of what seemed brutish before.
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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.
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Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.
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