Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Perception

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  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

• The universe is wider than our views of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Views, Space

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

• The perception of beauty is a moral test.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beauty, Perception

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.120, Princeton University Press

• Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perception, Church, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

• Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Common Sense, Perception

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Conclusion'.

• In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Joy, Perception

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and see that such actions are inconsistent with the poetic perception, however they may serve science, and will affect the quality of my observations. I pray that I may walk more innocently and serenely through nature. No reasoning whatever reconciles me to this act. It affects my day injuriously. I have lost some self-respect. I have a murderer's experience to a degree.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Self

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Learning, Knowledge

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.57, Courier Corporation

• A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Perception, Sentimental

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.159, Jazzybee Verlag

• I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Thinking, Vision

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.152

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