Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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Wonder is the basis of worship.
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.