Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
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
Errors
Avoid
Mass
Truth
Thing
Attain
Masses
Immense
Error
More quotes by Thomas Carlyle
The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
Thomas Carlyle
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
Thomas Carlyle
No violent extreme endures.
Thomas Carlyle
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
Thomas Carlyle
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
Thomas Carlyle
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
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
All work is as seed sown it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
Thomas Carlyle
Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
Thomas Carlyle
It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
Thomas Carlyle
What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.
Thomas Carlyle
As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
Thomas Carlyle
To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
Thomas Carlyle
The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
Thomas Carlyle
The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
Thomas Carlyle
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
Thomas Carlyle
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
Thomas Carlyle
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
Thomas Carlyle
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Thomas Carlyle
