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Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Experience

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The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Experience, Savages
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.26, Courier Corporation

We are older by faith than by experience.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Experience
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

Henry David Thoreau
Angel, Men, Experience
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.220, Graphic Arts Books

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

Henry David Thoreau
Stars, Memorable, Experience
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

Henry David Thoreau
Experience, Wealth, Devotion
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

Henry David Thoreau
Experience, World, Deeds
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

Henry David Thoreau
Imagination, Experience, Fairs
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.269, Xist Publishing

We are superior to the joy we experience.

Henry David Thoreau
Joy, Experience, Superiors
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.103

Who is old enough to have learned from experience?

Henry David Thoreau
Experience, Enough
Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau ....”

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

Henry David Thoreau
Experience, Development, Courses
Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.243, David M Gross

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Art, Experience
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Sex, Experience
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1143, Delphi Classics

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

Henry David Thoreau
Ideas, Experience, Observation
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

Henry David Thoreau
Expression, Experience, Aids
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.90, Jazzybee Verlag

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Men, Experience
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.

Henry David Thoreau
Past, Experience, Moments
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.73, Jazzybee Verlag

It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

Henry David Thoreau
Home, Experience, Mountain
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.165

Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?

Henry David Thoreau
One Day, Experience, Juice
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.661, Simon and Schuster

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

Henry David Thoreau
Thinking, Experience, Today
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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