To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
"I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians."