Famous Quotes / Thomas Carlyle
274 Quotations by Thomas Carlyle
- 181. Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

- 182. That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

- 183. The actual well seen is ideal.

- 184. The archenemy is the arch stupid!

- 185. The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

- 186. The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

- 187. The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

- 188. The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in th ...

- 189. The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because ...

- 190. The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because ...

- 191. The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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

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

- 194. The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

- 195. The devil has his elect.

- 196. The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconsciou ...

- 197. The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

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

- 199. The end of man is action.

- 200. The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
