Quotes about Introspection
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
— Henry David Thoreau
Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone? We
— Henry David Thoreau
By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Nothing can be more useful to a man than the determination not to be hurried.
— Henry David Thoreau
Do not engage to find things as you think they are.
— Henry David Thoreau
Alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout lands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day like this, when a villager would be thinking of his inn, I come to myself. I once more feel myself grandly related. This cold and solitude are friends of mine.
— Henry David Thoreau
They required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things
— Henry David Thoreau
I was describing the other day my success in solitary and distant woodland walking outside the town. I do not go there to get my dinner, but to get that sustenance which dinners only preserve me to enjoy, without which dinners are a vain repetition.
— Henry David Thoreau
Have you got in your wood for this winter? What else have you got in? Of what use a great fire on the hearth, and a confounded little fire in the heart?
— Henry David Thoreau
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.
— Henry David Thoreau
Foolish people imagine that what they imagine is somewhere else. That stuff is not made in any factory but their own.
— Henry David Thoreau