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Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it
— Henry David Thoreau
A wise man has doubts even in his best moments. Real truth is always accompanied by hesitations. If I could not hesitate, I could not believe.
— Henry David Thoreau
For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help of Greek, Or any tongue.
— Henry David Thoreau
I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
— Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
— Henry David Thoreau
The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.
— Henry David Thoreau
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
— Henry David Thoreau
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here ... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness ... give me truth.
— Jon Krakauer
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them? that it was a vain endeavor?
— Henry David Thoreau
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
— Henry David Thoreau
It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places.
— Daniel J. Rice
As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.
— Henry David Thoreau
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.
— Henry David Thoreau
Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
— Henry David Thoreau
What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?
— Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau was an idiot.
— Bill Bryson
There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
— Henry David Thoreau
Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.
— Henry David Thoreau
Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.
— Henry David Thoreau
While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.
— Henry David Thoreau
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.
— Henry David Thoreau
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard
— Henry David Thoreau
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
— Henry David Thoreau
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.
— Henry David Thoreau
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
— Henry David Thoreau
Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.
— Henry David Thoreau
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
— Henry David Thoreau
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
— Henry David Thoreau
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
— Henry David Thoreau
A lawyer's truth is not Truth. It is consistency, or consistent expediency
— Henry David Thoreau
Here or nowhere is our heaven.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.
— Henry David Thoreau
Between whom there is hearty truth there is love ...
— Henry David Thoreau
He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
— Henry David Thoreau
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
— Henry David Thoreau
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.
— Henry David Thoreau
Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.
— Henry David Thoreau
Truth is always paradoxical.
— Henry David Thoreau
All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.
— Henry David Thoreau
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
— Henry David Thoreau
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.
— Henry David Thoreau
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
— Henry David Thoreau