Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Experience Quotes

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely,...

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely,...

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard...

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard...

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the...

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the...

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to...

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to...

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything...

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything...

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its...

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its...

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma,...

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma,...

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished...

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished...

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their...

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their...

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical...

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical...

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in...

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in...

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is...

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is...