Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
The following are quotes from Thomas Carlyle:
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
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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