274 Quotations by Thomas Carlyle
- 61. I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
- 62. I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an ec ...
- 63. I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.
- 64. I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr ...
- 65. I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
- 66. I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
- 67. If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are ...
- 68. If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
- 69. If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, ...
- 70. If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
- 71. If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
- 72. If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
- 73. If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
- 74. If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
- 75. If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of ...
- 76. If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men ta ...
- 77. If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
- 78. Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage ...
- 79. Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
- 80. Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spi ...
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