Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Understanding
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
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How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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