Thomas Carlyle quotes was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era. Born: 12/04/1795 Died: 02/05/1881 Country: united_kingdom

• A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. (Thomas Carlyle) [civilization & progress]
• Clever men are good, but they are not the best. (Thomas Carlyle) [men]
• The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. (Thomas Carlyle) [depth]
• The devil has his elect. (Thomas Carlyle)
• 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) [power/willpower/more/time]
• The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. (Thomas Carlyle) [shine]
• One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. (Thomas Carlyle)
• A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. (Thomas Carlyle)
• No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves. (Thomas Carlyle) [universe/omnipotence/men/shadow]
• What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. (Thomas Carlyle) [university/collection/books]
• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Thomas Carlyle) [collectivism/wisdom/ignorance]
• The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. (Thomas Carlyle)
• The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. (Thomas Carlyle)
• 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)
• Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. (Thomas Carlyle) [give]
• Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. (Thomas Carlyle) [source]
• Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be. (Thomas Carlyle) [willpower]
• The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. (Thomas Carlyle) [dust]
• There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. (Thomas Carlyle) [sense of duty]
• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. (Thomas Carlyle) [religion]
• The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. (Thomas Carlyle)
• Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. (Thomas Carlyle) [action]
• Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. (Thomas Carlyle) [willpower]
• After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. (Thomas Carlyle) [knowledge/books/university/collection]
• If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that. (Thomas Carlyle) [willpower/reach/art/account]
• A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. (Thomas Carlyle) [point/rest]
• History is the distillation of rumor. (Thomas Carlyle)
• Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. (Thomas Carlyle) [imagination]
• What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts? (Thomas Carlyle) [facts/more]
• The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle)
• I grow daily to honor 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) [facts/more/more/thing]

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