Quote of Henry David Thoreau - It is never too late to...

Biography - Henry David Thoreau:

American essayist, poet and philosopher.
Born: 1817 - Died: 1862
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States

Quote

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

prejudice

Note

Source: Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Wikisource - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (en)

Wikisource - Thoreau - Walden (fr)

Translation

(French, German)

Il n'est jamais trop tard pour renoncer à nos préjugés.”
Henry David Thoreau - Walden ou la Vie dans les bois

Es ist nie zu spät, unsere Vorurteile aufzugeben.”
Henry David Thoreau - Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern

Quotes about prejudice:

A judgment can be refuted, but never a prejudice.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Whoever has destroyed a prejudice, a single prejudice, is a benefactor of mankind.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Discours sur l'influence des grands écrivains

prejudice

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.”
Nelson Mandela

A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work.”
David Hume

Henry David Thoreau also said...

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

wisdom

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
Henry David Thoreau

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.”
Henry David Thoreau

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.”
Henry David Thoreau - Journal

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