Henry David Thoreau Quotes

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

The wise are wise only because they love.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

Goals give purpose. Purpose gives faith. Faith gives courage. Courage gives enthusiasm. Enthusiasm gives energy. Energy gives life. Life lifts you over the bar.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

You can't understand the first thing about God unless you love Him. These big so - called Vedic scholars - they don't necessarily love Krishna, so they can't understand Him and give Him to us.

It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

No man is the wiser for his learning

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.