Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [581-600] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.~ Henry David Thoreau To be awake is to be alive.~ Henry David Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.~ Henry David Thoreau That government is best which governs least.~ Henry David Thoreau I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.~ Henry David Thoreau If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.~ Henry David Thoreau Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.~ Henry David Thoreau That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.~ Henry David Thoreau Things do not change, we change.~ Henry David Thoreau A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.~ Henry David Thoreau I know that most men -- not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic, problems -- can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty -- conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi Hypocrisy is anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor.~ Arnold J. Toynbee A memory is the life past, no one can take from you, forever it lasts.~ Verka Paunovska Trajcesica When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.~ Harry S. Truman I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.~ Harry S. Truman This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty. ... The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.~ St. George Tucker Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.~ Amos Tversky It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.~ Mark Twain Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print