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"As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground."
"The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity."
"Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender."
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."