Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be s >>

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the h >>

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one anothe >>

Quotations about Facts

General principles are not the less true or important because from the >>

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than >>

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. >>

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought -- with these I deal.

Thoreau, Henry David