Thomas Carlyle Quotes
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Aristotle
By far the best proof is experience.
Francis Bacon
Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:"The question is much too difficult for me".
Albert Einstein
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Galileo Galilei
And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
Salvador Dali
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
Moliere
There’s more to life than just London,’ said Nightingale. ‘People keep saying that,’ I said. ‘But I’ve never actually seen any proof.
Ben Aaronovitch
Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.
George Stillman Hillard
Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.
Joanne Rowling
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
