Henry David Thoreau Quotes

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:love truth money

“if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:life success dreams

“Our life is frittered away by detail.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:life

“I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:life good evil

“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.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:life nature learning

“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle

topic:life poetry business

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:life change reading

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:truth

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”

― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

topic:truth dreams

“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:truth justice

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