Thomas Carlyle quotes

Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish historian, philosopher, and essayist, renowned for his influential works on culture and society. His writings inspired debates on leadership, history, and the power of individuals. He became a leading figure in Victorian intellectual life and shaped the literary and philosophical discourse of his time. Here are 732 of his quotes:

The history of the world is but the biography of great men. (Thomas Carlyle)
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. View quote
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. View quote
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. View quote
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. View quote
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. View quote
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. View quote
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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self. View quote
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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. View quote
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. View quote
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. (Thomas Carlyle)
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. View quote
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The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. View quote
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All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. View quote
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road. View quote
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. View quote
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One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities. View quote
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Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books. View quote
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The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. View quote
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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. View quote
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History, a distillation of rumour. (Thomas Carlyle)
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. View quote
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. View quote
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. View quote
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. View quote
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Thomas Carlyle

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Occupation: Scottish Essayist
Born: December 4, 1795
Died: February 5, 1881
Quotes count: 732
Wikipedia: Thomas Carlyle

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