Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

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... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous.. view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil.. view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Secrecy is the element of all goodness.. view

By: Thomas Carlyle

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

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... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Silence is more eloquent than words... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake.. view

By: Thomas Carlyle

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

No man lives without jostling and being jostled.. view

By: Thomas Carlyle

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

No person is important enough to make me angry... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

No pressure, no diamonds... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs.. view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

No violent extreme endures... view

By: 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... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Thought is the parent of the deed... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

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... view

By: Thomas Carlyle

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt.. view

By: Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity.. view

By: Thomas Carlyle