Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Trust

• To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Trust

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.9, Courier Corporation

• Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Trust, Fate, Track

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Trust, Thinking, Care

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.17, Graphic Arts Books

• No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Trust, Thinking, Echoes

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.16

• I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Trust, Father Son, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

• A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Trust, Gratitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

• The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame...
  
  and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Trust, Spring, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.16

• A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Trust, Optimism, Generous

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.50, Jazzybee Verlag

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