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  • I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.202, Penguin
  • How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

    Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.41, Booklassic
  • 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 had not lived.

    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
  • It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
  • There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

    Walden ch. 1 (1854)
  • I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

    'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'
  • I was determined to know beans.

    1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'The Bean-Field'.
  • It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

    Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

    Attributed in "The Life You Were Born to Live : A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose" by Dan Millman, (p. xi), 1995.
  • All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

    Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.57, Courier Corporation
  • Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

    Henry David Thoreau (2004). “On Reading: From "Walden"”, p.6, Princeton University Press
  • It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

    Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press
  • He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical.

    Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series”, p.270, e-artnow
  • Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster
  • Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

    Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.182, Yale University Press
  • No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

    Henry David Thoreau, Linda Corrente (1984). “Henry David Thoreau's Walden”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated
  • But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.158, Penguin
  • With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

    Henry David Thoreau, Robert Bly (1992). “The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry David Thoreau”, Perennial
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