“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.”
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
“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.”
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.”
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
“Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.”
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
“The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.”
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
“A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.”
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
“Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.”
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"Endurance is patience concentrated."
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?"
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"No pressure, no diamonds."
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words 'supply' and 'demand'."
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you."
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable."
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)