Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

I'm not very wise to many things.

Human beings understand too much.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

I like to say understanding is the power.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.

You only know what you know.

Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.