Thomas Carlyle Quotes

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

True, Days, Books

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 another.
Thomas Carlyle

Give, Thought, After

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

God, Through, Made

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle

Silence, Whole, Fall

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

Him, Obedience, Woe

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle

Become, Lies, Second

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thomas Carlyle

Alone, Doubt, Whatever

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Thomas Carlyle

Opinion, Starting, Minority

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

Good, Truth, Fact

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.
Thomas Carlyle

Happy, Whose, Vacant

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

Great, History, Done

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

Great, God, Daily

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

Truth, Speak, Creation

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

Enemy, Fight, Victory

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

Poor, Matter, Company

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

Time, Past, Soul

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

Isolation, Total, Sum

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

Strange, Gift, Highest

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle

Laughter, Human, Reason

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

Become, Capable, Created

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle

Love, Common, Delirium

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle

Hope, Place, Based

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle

Men, Less, Unless

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle

Action, Solid, Depth

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Thomas Carlyle

Necessity, Decorum

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 4, 1795

Died: February 5, 1881

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