Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
Essayist
Historian
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Mathematician
Novelist
Philosopher
Teacher
Translator
Writer
Philosopher of Chelsea
Reading
Healing
Knowledge
Finished
Read
Depends
Become
Motivational
Collection
Book
Teacher
Professors
Life
Greatest
Collections
Education
Retirement
Books
University
More quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
Thomas Carlyle
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
Thomas Carlyle
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
Thomas Carlyle
To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
Thomas Carlyle
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
Thomas Carlyle
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
Thomas Carlyle
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Thomas Carlyle
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
Thomas Carlyle
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Thomas Carlyle
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
Thomas Carlyle
The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
Thomas Carlyle
Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
Thomas Carlyle
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle
Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
Thomas Carlyle
History is the distillation of rumour.
Thomas Carlyle
