3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn new things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you have imagined.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!

Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake