Henry David Thoreau Quotes

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

The dark is light enough.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Night hath a thousand eyes.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

The bright incarnate spirit of the Morn.

If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

The light of morning decomposes everything.

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

You showed me everything was black cause my eyes were closed.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.