Thomas Carlyle Quotes

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

Thomas Carlyle

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• I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • People
  • Pain
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• A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Single
  • Play
  • Football

• I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Career
  • Interested

• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • School
  • Home
  • America

• Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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  • Will
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• Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Vegetables
  • African
  • Spice

• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Words
  • Nothing
  • Equal

• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Why
  • May

• The world knows only two, - that's Rome and I.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • World

• Oὐ γὰρ δοκεῖν ἄριστος, ἀλλ᾽ εἶναι θέλει

  

  Aeschylus

• Quiet, the Unicorn,In contemplation stilled,With acceptance filled;Quiet, save for his horn;Alive in his horn;Horizontally,In captivity;Perpendicularly,Free.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Free
  • Acceptance
  • Unicorn

• The fact is there are no stories I can tell my friends that will make them feel better. History cannot be erased, although we can soothe ourselves by speculating about it.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Friends
  • History

• Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Space

• My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am homosexual. I didn't go to film school.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• Lots of people with little kids or babies with Down syndrome tell me they aren't afraid of the future for their child because of what I am doing to help people understand it better.

  

  Lauren Potter
  • People
  • Kids
  • Help

• You can get fake fur, which, if that's what you want - if you want that fur look - it looks just the same. It's really unnecessary to skin an animal when you can get something that looks just the same without hurting anything.

  

  Christian Serratos
  • Animal
  • Fake

• We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • People
  • Rock

• I think I've gotten to the point in my life where I have to do everything that I'm scared of because you're not going to learn anything if you don't, so you just have to dive in the deep end and see if you can swim.

  

  Carmen Cusack
  • Life
  • Deep

• Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Circumstances
  • Speaking
  • Declare

• In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

  

  John Barton
  • Past
  • Poetry

• But the fact that we can stand here today, along the fault line where a city was divided, speaks to an eternal truth: No wall can stand against the yearning of justice, the yearnings for freedom, the yearnings for peace that burns in the human heart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Today

• The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Babble