The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together. — 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… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it! — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking? — 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
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
