Top 6 Thoreau Truth Quotes

#1. The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here ... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness ... give me truth.

Jon Krakauer

#3. Thoreau was an idiot.

Bill Bryson

#4. Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them? that it was a vain endeavor?

Henry David Thoreau

#5. It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places.

Daniel J. Rice

#6. [on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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