A Quote by Henry David Thoreau

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau
American - Author
July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.

Craig Thompson

The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars.

Heidi Hammel

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

Saul Alinsky

Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

Jonathan Kellerman

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

Matthew Henry

The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.

Wilbur D. Nesbit

For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we’ll tread through any flame.

Chang-Rae Lee

Do not be afraid to go and to bring Christ into every area of life, to the fringes of society, even to those who seem farthest away, most indifferent.

Pope Francis

[Texas is] the place where there are the most cows and the least milk and the most rivers and the least water in them, and where you can look the farthest to see the least.

H. L. Mencken

Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

J. C. Ryle

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

Aristotle

My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?

Nazim Hikmet

Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.