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Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Dark, History
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.110, Xist Publishing

What we need to know in any case is very simple.

Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom, Knowledge, Simple
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.90, Xist Publishing

I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posterity; for knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Science, Men
"Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature".

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

Henry David Thoreau
Communication, Knowledge, Men
Michael Benjamin Berger, Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds: The Saunterer's Synoptic Vision”, p.83, Camden House

While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Brain, Potatoes
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.331, Penguin

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

Henry David Thoreau
Memorable, Knowledge, History
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.108, Xist Publishing

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Light, Sight
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.126, Delphi Classics

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Men, Evil
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.197, Delphi Classics

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

Henry David Thoreau
Sympathy, Knowledge, Intelligence
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Secret, Rift
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.50, BookBaby

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Sleep, Men
Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

Henry David Thoreau
Travel, Knowledge, Men
Henry David Thoreau, Michael McCurdy, Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “Walden”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Thinking, Eggs
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.73, Courier Corporation

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Learning, Knowledge
Henry David Thoreau, Linda Corrente (1984). “Henry David Thoreau's Walden”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Knowledge, Biographies
Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Learning, Knowledge
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.57, Courier Corporation

There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.

Henry David Thoreau
Mother, Children, Knowledge

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, History, Doe
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection: 6 Books, 26 Essays & 60+ Poems, Including Translations. Biographies & Letters (Illustrated): Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada, Canoeing in the Wilderness, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, Excursions, Poems of Nature, Familiar Letters…”, p.1447, e-artnow

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.

Henry David Thoreau
Stars, Knowledge, Glasses
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.110, Xist Publishing

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

Henry David Thoreau
Success, Knowledge, Science
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.271, Delphi Classics

Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Science, Light
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Blood, Giving

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Knowledge, Reality
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspiration, Knowledge, Light
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Sleep, Dragons
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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