Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
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
Figures
Statistician
Prove
Statesman
Science
Statesmen
Anything
Statistics
Might
Witty
Mathematical
Math
Mathematics
More quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Thomas Carlyle
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
Thomas Carlyle
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
Thomas Carlyle
Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
Thomas Carlyle
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle
The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
Thomas Carlyle
The whole past is the procession of the present.
Thomas Carlyle
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
Thomas Carlyle
The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
Thomas Carlyle
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.
Thomas Carlyle
The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
Thomas Carlyle
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
Thomas Carlyle
Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
Thomas Carlyle
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud electricity, and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?
Thomas Carlyle
In a certain sense all men are historians.
Thomas Carlyle
I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
Thomas Carlyle
The age of miracles is forever here.
Thomas Carlyle
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
Thomas Carlyle
Courtesy is the due of man to man not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
Thomas Carlyle
Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
Thomas Carlyle
