Quote of Henry David Thoreau - Shall I not have intelligence with...
Biography - Henry David Thoreau:
American essayist, poet and philosopher.
Born: 1817 - Died: 1862
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States
Born: 1817 - Died: 1862
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?
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Quotes about earth:
Quotes about intelligence:
To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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