It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is...

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is...

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded...

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded...

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not,...

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not,...

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is...

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is...

The universe is wider than our views of it.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the...

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the...

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not...

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not...

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by...

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by...