Top 835 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Carlyle - Page 2
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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?
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
All great peoples are conservative.
Be not a slave of words.
No violent extreme endures.
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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.
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
No person is important enough to make me angry.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
History, a distillation of rumour.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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