Famous Quotes

Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

• A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
• A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
• A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
• All great peoples are conservative.
• Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
• Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
• Endurance is patience concentrated.
• Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
• Every noble work is at first impossible.
• Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
• For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
• For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
• Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
• He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.
• History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
• History, a distillation of rumour.
• Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
• I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
• I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
• I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
• If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in 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, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
• If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
• Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
• In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
• In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
• It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
• It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
• Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
• Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
• Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.