Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Great is wisdom infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated it is the highest achievement of man.
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
Values
Cannot
Great
Exaggerated
Men
Achievement
Infinite
Highest
Value
Wisdom
More quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
Thomas Carlyle
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
Thomas Carlyle
Be not a slave of words.
Thomas Carlyle
A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
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
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
The true epic of our times is not Arm's and the Man, but Tools and the Man--an infinitely wider kind of epic.
Thomas Carlyle
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
Thomas Carlyle
The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
Thomas Carlyle
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
Thomas Carlyle
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
Thomas Carlyle
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
Thomas Carlyle
Caution is the lower story of prudence.
Thomas Carlyle
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
Thomas Carlyle
Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
Variety is the condition of harmony.
Thomas Carlyle
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
Thomas Carlyle
Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas Carlyle
