Knows Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

— Thomas Carlyle

The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

— Thomas Carlyle

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

— Thomas Carlyle

What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

— Thomas Carlyle

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

— Thomas Carlyle

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble…

— Thomas Carlyle

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

— Thomas Carlyle

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

— Thomas Carlyle

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and…

— Thomas Carlyle

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be…

— Thomas Carlyle

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there,…

— Thomas Carlyle

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded…

— Thomas Carlyle

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider…

— Thomas Carlyle

Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will…

— Thomas Carlyle

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself…

— Thomas Carlyle

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know…

— Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your…

— Thomas Carlyle

O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule…

— Thomas Carlyle

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be…

— Thomas Carlyle

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this…

— Thomas Carlyle

They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom…

— Thomas Carlyle

We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know…

— Thomas Carlyle