Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
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All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data that isn't leading to strategic action stop wasting your time and look for more Actionable Analytics.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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A man's perfection is his work.
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Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
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High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.
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I call that Book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.