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

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God...

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God...

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I...

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I...

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of...

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of...

We live but a fraction of our lives

$We live but a fraction of our lives$

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to...

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to...

I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with,...

I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with,...

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere...

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere...

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of...

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of...

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for...

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for...

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers, which, however, I...

My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers, which, however, I...

The universe is wider than our views of it.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first...

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first...

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his...

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his...

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops...

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops...

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a...

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a...