I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle

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

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

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Thomas Carlyle

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
Thomas Carlyle

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Thomas Carlyle

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

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas Carlyle

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas Carlyle

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Thomas Carlyle

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

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Thomas Carlyle

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Thomas Carlyle

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

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle