Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

People die of fright and live of confidence. >>

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, >>

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the >>

Quotations about Self-knowledge

The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let t >>

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himsel >>

Our lives teach us who we are. >>

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David