Quotes

“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

“In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.” Thomas Carlyle

“It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.” Thomas Carlyle

“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.” Thomas Carlyle

“Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.” Thomas Carlyle

“Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.” Thomas Carlyle

“A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.” Thomas Carlyle

“Thought is the parent of the deed.” Thomas Carlyle

“A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.” Thomas Carlyle

“If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.” Thomas Carlyle

“Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.” Thomas Carlyle

“No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.” Thomas Carlyle

“Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.” Thomas Carlyle

“The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.” Thomas Carlyle

“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

“Wonder is the basis of worship.” Thomas Carlyle

“All great peoples are conservative.” Thomas Carlyle

“Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.” Thomas Carlyle

“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

“Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.” Thomas Carlyle

“One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.” Thomas Carlyle

“Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.” Thomas Carlyle

“Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.” Thomas Carlyle

“The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.” Thomas Carlyle

“The spiritual is the parent of the practical.” Thomas Carlyle

“The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.” Thomas Carlyle

“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

“Be not a slave of words.” Thomas Carlyle

“Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.” Thomas Carlyle

“Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.” Thomas Carlyle