Men Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

— Thomas Carlyle

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

— Thomas Carlyle

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

— Thomas Carlyle

A man perfects himself by working.

— Thomas Carlyle

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

— Thomas Carlyle

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

— Thomas Carlyle

A man lives by believing something.

— Thomas Carlyle

The Highest Being reveals himself in man.

— Thomas Carlyle

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

— Thomas Carlyle

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

— Thomas Carlyle

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

— Thomas Carlyle

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

— Thomas Carlyle

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

— Thomas Carlyle

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

— Thomas Carlyle

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

— Thomas Carlyle

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.

— Thomas Carlyle

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual…

— Thomas Carlyle

A man should be encouraged to do what the Maker of him has intended by the making of him, according as the…

— Thomas Carlyle

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom…

— Thomas Carlyle

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only…

— Thomas Carlyle

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the…

— Thomas Carlyle

Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded…

— Thomas Carlyle

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

— Thomas Carlyle

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

— Thomas Carlyle

I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued…

— Thomas Carlyle

Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance;…

— Thomas Carlyle

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A…

— Thomas Carlyle

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas…

— 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

Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to…

— Thomas Carlyle

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be…

— Thomas Carlyle

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one…

— 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

O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted…

— Thomas Carlyle

Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe…

— Thomas Carlyle

Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the…

— Thomas Carlyle

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance.…

— Thomas Carlyle

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a…

— Thomas Carlyle