Henry David Thoreau Quotes & Sayings

125 most famous Henry David Thoreau quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American author who passed away on 6 May, 1862.

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”

“Things do not change; we change.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”