He was a Scottish satirical writer, essay writer, historian, and instructor in the Victorian period. He called economics the "disappointing scientific research", composed the post for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and also became a controversial social analyst.
He came from a stringent Calvinist, as well as was initially expected to follow his parents footsteps and end up being a preacher, but while studying at the College of Edinburgh, he ceases to be a follower. Nonetheless, the values of Calvinism still he kept until the end of his life. The combination of these spiritual character with loss of faith in typical Christianity made Carlyle's jobs interesting to the people in Victorian times that are dealing with political and also clinical adjustments that intimidate their typical social pecking orders.
Our collection contains 111 quotes who is written / told by Thomas, under the main topics: Love - Business - Work.
"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder"
"Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite"
"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall"
"The true university of these days is a collection of books"
"No pressure, no diamonds"
"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness"
"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge"
"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years"
"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid"
"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come"
"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"
"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do"
"Wonder is the basis of worship"
"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever"
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight"
"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one"
"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains"
"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct"
"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done"
"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity"
"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all"
"I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it"
"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"
"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will"
"Every noble work is at first impossible"
"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
"Silence is more eloquent than words"
"No person is important enough to make me angry"
"Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom"
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone"
"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see"
"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom"
"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being"
"All great peoples are conservative"
"A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things"
"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen"
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it"
"The spiritual is the parent of the practical"
"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time"
"Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious"
"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men"
"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species"
"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will"
"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct"
"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books"
"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus"
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green"
"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment"
"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity"
