A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share
