All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a… Action
- The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that… Believer
- A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. Figures
- 'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all. All
- A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. Foisted
- All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. All
- A thought once awakened does not again slumber. Awakened
- We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal. Altogether
- Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among… Among
- Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules. Canst
- True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall. Both
- There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. Barrenness
- Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil,… Brandishing
- A man perfects himself by working. Inspirational
- In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it. Anyone
- Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those… Any
- Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. Atrophy
- The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. All
- The king is the man who can. Ability
- A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on… Clear
- Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading. All
- Habit is the deepest law of human nature Deepest
- What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that… All
- The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin Consciousness
- Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain? Any