Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

All great peoples are conservative.

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.