Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Understanding

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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Henry David Thoreau

Deep Life, Understanding, Littles

Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.61, Heron Dance Press

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

Henry David Thoreau

Failure, Men, Understanding

Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.36, Penguin

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Imagination, Understanding

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

Henry David Thoreau

Order, Understanding, World

There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

Henry David Thoreau

Two, Understanding, Faults

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.283, Princeton University Press