All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. Doubt
- Thought is the parent of the deed. Deed
- A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. Analytics
- Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. Action
- Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. Deliberately
- No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. Ability
- Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. All
- When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. Acorn
- Wonder is the basis of worship. Bases
- All great peoples are conservative. All
- Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. All
- If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? Creation
- If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk,… Better
- Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. Departs
- One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. Certainty
- Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. Art
- Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. Acting
- The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. All
- The spiritual is the parent of the practical. Parent
- The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. Inspirational
- Be not a slave of words. Communication
- Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. Every New
- It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol… Advocacy
- No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. Disbelief
- Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. Brute