Thomas Carlyle Famous Quotes
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come."
"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."
"A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you."
"If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it."
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
"If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt."
"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die."
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
"Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt."
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
"That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy."
Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts."
Thomas Carlyle Quotations
"Harry Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention."
Dumb and Dumber
Believe in something larger than yourself.
Barbara Bush
"I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul."
Victor Hugo
"Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves."
Theodor Reik
"If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."
Leon Trotsky
"Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use."
Peter Mere Latham
"Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial."
Sophocles
"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental."
Leopold Stein
"My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places."
Alan Alexander Milne
"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."
Malcolm X