Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Learning
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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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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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
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I was determined to know beans.
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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
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What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.
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All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical.
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
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Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
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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.
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But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
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With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
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