Thomas Carlyle: Trending quotes (page 5)

“The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.”

“A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.”

“Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.”

“The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.”

“Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.”

“The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.”

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”

“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.”

“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are”

“Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

“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.”

“Silence is more eloquent than words.”

“Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.”

“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”

“The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.”

“Considered as the last finish of education, or of human culture, worth and acquirement, the art of speech is noble, and even divine; it is like the kindling of a Heaven's light to show us what a glorious world exists, and has perfected itself, in a man.”

“it is a most important social act; nay, at bottom, the one important social act. Given the men a People choose, the People itself, in its exact worth and worthlessness, is given. A heroic people chooses heroes, and is happy; a valet or flunkey people chooses sham-heroes, what are called quacks, thinking them heroes, and is not happy.”