I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is...

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is...

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

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

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it...

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it...

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

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,...

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all...

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all...

The glory of a workman, still more of a master-workman, that he does his work...

The glory of a workman, still more of a master-workman, that he does his work...

No person is important enough to make me angry.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief...

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief...

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.

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

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

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.