71 quotes by Thomas Carlyle

“I grow daily to honour 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

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“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

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“What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.” — Thomas Carlyle

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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?” — Thomas Carlyle

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“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People; like Government.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” — Thomas Carlyle

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

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“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

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“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.” — Thomas Carlyle

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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.” — Thomas Carlyle

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