Wisdom Quote by Henry David Thoreau — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”

“I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.”

“Sometimes, in a summer morning,”

“I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, instead of a church, when I would have gone farther than he to hear a true word spoken on that or any day. He declared that I was 'breaking the Lord's fourth commandment,' and proceeded to enumerate, in a sepulchral tone, the disasters which had befallen him whenever he had done any ordinary work on the Sabbath. He really thought that a god was on the watch to trip up those men who followed any secular work on this day, and did not see that it was the evil conscience of the workers that did it.”

“Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.”

“We have all grown wiser.”

“Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.”

“There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.”

“Entering the underground was the most powerful thing I've ever done. That's where you finally learn to see.”

“You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.”