“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”– Henry David Thoreau Related Quotes “Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.”– Henry David Thoreau “Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.”– Maggie Gallagher “Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”– Pablo Picasso