Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Experience

• When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Death, Greatness

• We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Adventure

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.273, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

• How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Views, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.137, Penguin

• 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".

• Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Art, Experience

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

• Who is old enough to have learned from experience?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Experience, Enough

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau ....”

• The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Experience, Development, Courses

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.243, David M Gross

• I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Experience, Today

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.47, Courier Corporation

• Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?

  Henry David Thoreau

  One Day, Experience, Juice

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.661, Simon and Schuster

• In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Squirrels

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.74, New York Review of Books

• The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Experience, Savages

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Weed, Long

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.158, Yale University Press

• In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Experience, World, Deeds

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

• The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Men, Experience

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

• There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Travel, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.103, Rowman & Littlefield

• The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Sex, Experience

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1143, Delphi Classics

• If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Angel, Men, Experience

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.220, Graphic Arts Books

• We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Imagination, Experience, Fairs

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.269, Xist Publishing

• We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ideas, Experience, Observation

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

• A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

• Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Thinking, Air

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

• Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent's shadow. Our mother's faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Dream, Song

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

• We are superior to the joy we experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Joy, Experience, Superiors

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.103

• It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Experience, Wealth, Devotion

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

• We are older by faith than by experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Experience

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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