Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Genius

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Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

Henry David Thoreau

Independence, Genius, Emperor

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Henry David Thoreau

Genius, Failing, Hours

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.70, 谷月社

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

Henry David Thoreau

Art, Two, Genius

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.1, 谷月社

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

Henry David Thoreau

Genius, Divinity

Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.149, Courier Corporation

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Henry David Thoreau

Light, Darkness, Genius

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.405, Penguin

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Genius, Misled

"The Portable Thoreau".

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

Henry David Thoreau

News, Genius, Journalism

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

Henry David Thoreau

Charity, Genius, Wells

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.192, Penguin

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Poetry, Genius

Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series”, p.231, e-artnow

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

Henry David Thoreau

Doe, Genius, Lasts

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1037, Delphi Classics

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Henry David Thoreau

Genius, Charity, May

We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.

Henry David Thoreau

Humorous, Humanity, Genius

Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.462, Modern Library