Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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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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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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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Wonder is the basis of worship.