Thomas Carlyle Quotes

We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Una vez despertado el pensamiento no vuelve a dormitar.

[F]riend!—Will the ballot-box raise the Noblest to the chief place; does any sane man deliberately believe such a thing?

No pressure, no diamonds.

Any the smallest alteration of my silent daily habits produces anarchy in me

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.

He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.

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.

History a distillation of Rumour.

All this of Liberty and Equality, Electoral suffrages, Independence and so forth, we will take, therefore, to be a temporary phenomenon, by no means a final one. Though likely to last a long time, with sad enough embroilments for us all, we must welcome it, as the penalty of sins that are past, the pledge of inestimable benefits that are coming.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.

existence. If we think of it, 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.