Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle is nothing but the biography of the Great Man".
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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

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Thomas Carlyle

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Thomas Carlyle

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Thomas Carlyle

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

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All great peoples are conservative.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Thomas Carlyle

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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.

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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

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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.

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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?

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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Thomas Carlyle

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

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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