“It takes two to speak the truth—one to speak, and another to hear.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes · Page 2
1817 – 1862
American essayist, poet and naturalist, best known for 'Walden', his account of living simply in a cabin near Walden Pond.
“Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.”
“That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.”
“No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself.”
“Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings.”
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.”
“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.”
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
