Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Historical science is being left in the dust.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Being
  • Dust

• Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Kids
  • Reality

• Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Passion
  • Positive

• There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Gods
  • Dust

• Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • Controversy
  • Flats

• Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Dust
  • Ashes
  • Amen

• When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Live
  • Color
  • Missing

• There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Book
  • Feeling

• Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Life
  • Music
  • Everyday

• Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Enough

• Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Dust
  • Minute
  • Assimilated

• We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Suffering

• ... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Light
  • Joy
  • Everyday

• Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Fall
  • Conflict
  • Controversy

• You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Advantage

• Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Language
  • Truths
  • Falsehood

• When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Integrity
  • Reputation

• But as it is to the dust that we go down at death, so it is from the dust that we arise at the resurrection.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Death
  • Dust
  • Resurrection

• Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so too does a man incur the guilt of falsehood who, on the part of the Church, gives worship to God contrary to the manner established by the Church or divine authority, and according to ecclesiastical custom.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Church
  • Guilty

• In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Ego
  • Anger
  • Point Of View

• Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Heart
  • Way
  • Mirror

• We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Time
  • Art
  • True

• The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Dust
  • Falsehood
  • Controversy