Cool & famous Quotes by : Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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• Life

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

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• Inspirational

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

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• Life

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

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• Success

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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• Writing

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

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• Wisdom

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

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• Inspirational

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

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• Inspirational

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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• Education

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..

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• Life

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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• Humor

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

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• Humor

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

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• Inspirational

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

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• Life

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

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• Truth

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

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• Books

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

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• Books

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

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• Truth

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

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• Inspirational

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

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• Inspirational

We are constantly invited to be what we are.

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• Inspirational

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

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• Inspirational