Movies
TV Shows
Books
Authors
Blog
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Men are probably nearer to the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
Source:
The Journal (June 27, 1852)
Find more on
Themes
Men
Science
Superstition
Truth
Related Quotes
True superstition is ignorant honesty and this is beloved of god and man.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Custom had dinned into his ears a superstitious reverence for that which tangibly and physically exists, and had made him secretly ashamed to dwell...
Related Authors
Charles Darwin
Ernst Haeckel
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Margaret Fuller
Herman Melville
Emily Dickinson
Name:
Henry David Thoreau
Profession:
Naturalist, Poet
Born:
July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
More on:
Movies
TV Shows
Books
Authors
Blog