Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations

Summary

This quote implies that children, through their innocent and playful nature, have a better understanding of the true essence and connections of life compared to adults. The quote suggests that adults often struggle to live life in a meaningful way and mistakenly believe that their failures and experiences make them wiser. In contrast, children approach life with openness and curiosity, enabling them to see beyond superficial complexities and grasp the fundamental truths of existence.

Topics

Experience Wisdom Men Life Failure Children Relationships

By Henry David Thoreau

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Each class of society has its own requirements; but it may b

Each class of society has its own requirements; but it may be said that every class teaches the one immediately below it; and if the highest class be ignorant, uneducated, loving display, luxuriousness, and idle, the same spirit will prevail in humbler life.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional r

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adve

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

Bharati Mukherjee

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

Lord Chesterfield

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknow

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.

Michael Crichton

Knowledge Evolution Ignorance Consciousness Brain Conjecture Guessing Abiogenesis Darwinism Extraterrestrial Life Human Behavior

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and dema

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

Humanity Observation

The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in i

The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward.

Community Ends And Means Social Living

[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!

[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!

William Shakespeare

Funny Shakespeare Henry Iv