"I would stand upon facts...." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.”

“Read not the Times, read the Eternities.”

“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”

“Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.”

“Facts are stubborn things.”

“O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!”

“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”

“Facts can obscure the truth.”

“The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.”