Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
- Henry David Thoreau
This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.
- Henry David Thoreau
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.
- Henry David Thoreau
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
- Henry David Thoreau
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.
- Henry David Thoreau