Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Mistakes

• One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mistake, Errors, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2114, Delphi Classics

• Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion, through the alluvium which covers the globe, through poetry and philosophy and religion, through church and state, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, till we come to a hard bottom that rocks in place which we can call reality and say, "This is and no mistake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  New York, Philosophy, Mistake

• There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Travel, Mistake

• Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Mistake, Ignorance

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.156, Penguin

• But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Mistake, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.11

• Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Mistake, Blessing

  Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”

• It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Mistake, Thinking

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

• To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mistake, Add, Forget

• The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mistake, Way, Best Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1639, Delphi Classics

• The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mistake, Errors, Virtue

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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