Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

We hate the kindness which we understand. >>

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

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested >>

Quotations about Public Opinion

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and abs >>

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinio >>

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judg >>

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Thoreau, Henry David