Thomas Carlyle Quotes
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.
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There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
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A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.
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The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
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As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
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I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
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Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.
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Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:"The question is much too difficult for me".
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To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
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Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.
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And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
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The fact that I let you back into my bed is the proof that I've hit rock bottom.
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Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!
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For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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It's much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
