A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
All great peoples are conservative.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Be not a slave of words.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
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.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
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.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
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.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
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?
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
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.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
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.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
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.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
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.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
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.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
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 for sale.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
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.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the Infinite.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
No person is important enough to make me angry.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
No pressure, no diamonds.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance,but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
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.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Silence is more eloquent than words.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Work alone is noble.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Worship is transcendent wonder.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
- Thomas Carlyle Quote
