All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself,… Believe
- O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know… Actual
- A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. Backwards
- There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed. Available
- If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data… Action
- Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has… Carlyle
- Books are a triviality. Life alone is great. Alone
- Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood. Learning
- The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself. Ideal
- Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking? Fine
- If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily… Advisers
- On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows… Afraid
- Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy Coining
- Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. Dismal
- Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as… Azure
- Rest is for the dead. Dead
- Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all. All
- Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man Cipher
- The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception. Cannot Laugh
- All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. All
- For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness… Blindness
- Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one… All
- Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which… Antiwar
- Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by… All
- The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money. Along