Quotes

Question 0

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity

Answer 0

Thoreau

Question 1

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matter compared to what lies within us

Answer 1

Emerson

Question 2

We do not ride upon the railroad, it rides upon us

Answer 2

Thoreau

Question 3

To be great is to be misunderstood

Answer 3

Emerson

Question 4

Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string

Answer 4

Emerson

Question 5

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation, frittered away by detail

Answer 5

Thoreau

Question 6

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential fact so of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach. And not when I cam to die discover that I had not lived

Answer 6

Thoreau

Question 7

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist

Answer 7

Emerson

Question 8

The only way to have a friend is to be one

Answer 8

Emerson

Question 9

Only that day dawns to which we are awake

Answer 9

Thoreau

Question 10

If a man does not keep peace with is companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears however measured or far away

Answer 10

Thoreau

Question 11

Hitch your wagon to a star

Answer 11

Emerson

Question 12

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Answer 12

Emerson

Question 13

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind

Answer 13

Emerson

Question 14

What should we think of a shepards life if his flocks wander to higher pastures than his thoughts

Answer 14

Thoreau

Question 15

A foolish consistency is a hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines

Answer 15

Emerson

Question 16

Olympus is but the outside of earth everywhere

Answer 16

Thoreau

Question 17

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them

Answer 17

Thoreau