What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
"To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge."
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."