THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. (Claude Pepper, U.S. senator and representative, 1900-1989Arrogance: The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. (Stephen Jay Gould, U.S. paleontologist, biologist, author, 1941-2002Journalists: You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. (Jessica Mitford, English journalist and civil rights activist, 1917-1996Fishing: Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : What is the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : It's not what you look at that matters; it's what you see.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : Be not simply good; be good for something.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : Men have become the tools of their tools.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : What is morality but immemorial custom?
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID : I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.