Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Understanding

• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

• We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Deep Life, Understanding, Littles

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.61, Heron Dance Press

• How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Failure, Men, Understanding

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.36, Penguin

• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Two, Understanding, Faults

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.283, Princeton University Press

• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Order, Understanding, World

• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Imagination, Understanding

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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