Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.

I was always at my best when I was learning, when I was curious. When I had yet to see past the next horizon.

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting that within every question is an adventure, a pursuit which can lead us to hidden treasure.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant.

Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.