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We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Henry David Thoreau
Education, Knowledge, Half
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.212, Courier Corporation

It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Thinking, Thoughtful
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.490, Delphi Classics

Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.

Henry David Thoreau
Music, Knowledge, Destiny
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.124, Xist Publishing

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom, Knowledge, Light
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.117, Delphi Classics

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

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

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance, Knowledge, Science
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.68, Xist Publishing

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Knowledge, Doe
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.116, Penguin

We bless and curse ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Consciousness, Bless
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.123, Penguin

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Men, Support
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.41, Courier Corporation

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Men, Virtue
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.274, Penguin

If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Knowledge, Blue
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.493, e-artnow

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Sight, Mediums
Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.290, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Thinking, Gone
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.406

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Nature, Knowledge
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.66, Gibbs Smith

I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad base spreads over a village or two, which does not know it; neither does it know them, nor do I when I ascend it. I can see its general outline as plainly now in my mind as that of Wachusett. I do not invent in the least, but state exactly what I see. I find that I go up it when I am light-footed and earnest. It ever smokes like an altar with its sacrifice. I am not aware that a single villager frequents it or knows of it. I keep this mountain to ride instead of a horse.

Henry David Thoreau
Dream, Horse, Knowledge

Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Science, Light
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

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