Famous quotes containing the words commonly and/or referred:
“In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)