All Thomas Carlyle Quotes
- The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. Action
- We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under… Call
- No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. Been
- Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. Eternity
- When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may… Balance
- For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. Endure
- Speech is great, but silence is greater. Great
- The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit. Conceit
- I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Believe
- Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his… Bond
- The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. Capability
- The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in… Affirm
- The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind. Another Mind
- It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. All
- As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly… All
- When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass… Angel
- A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it… Almighty
- These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of… Arabs
- Without kindness there can be no true joy. Inspirational
- A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. Great
- If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero? Every One
- If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. All
- I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up. Christianity
- There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter. Clothes
- Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. Encasing