Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle is nothing but the biography of the Great Man".
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Thomas Carlyle

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Thomas Carlyle

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Thomas Carlyle

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Thomas Carlyle

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

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The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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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

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Thomas Carlyle

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Thomas Carlyle

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

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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 an...

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

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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Thomas Carlyle

Author Bio

  • NameThomas Carlyle
  • DescriptionScottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
  • BornDecember 4, 1795
  • DiedFebruary 4, 1881
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionLinguist; Literary Historian; Historian; Translator; Mathematician; Philosopher; Essayist; Writer
  • WorksSartor Resartus; On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And The Heroic In History
  • AwardsOrder Of Merit For Arts And Science