The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all… — 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 Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
