Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Thomas Carlyle

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• He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

  

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• When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

  

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• Quarterbacks are always ready.

  

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• Before taking final leave of me, my instructor inquired concerning my physical strength, and I was able to inform him that I hadn't any.

  

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• The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

  

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• Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.

  

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• You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

  

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• There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

  

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• A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

  

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• The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions.

  

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• It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

  

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• I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

  

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• You have all these things not because you deserve them, but because Jesus shed His blood and gave you the right to have them. All these blessings are yours today because God is for you! And if God is for you, who can be against you!

  

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• Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

  

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• Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Deserve
  • Seldom
  • Rebelling