Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
- Henry David Thoreau
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
- Henry David Thoreau
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.
- Henry David Thoreau
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
- Henry David Thoreau
That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau