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

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Heart Quotes, Mind Quotes

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair

In idleness there is a perpetual despair

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...

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows,...

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows,...

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to...

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to...

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the...

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the...

All great peoples are conservative.

All great peoples are conservative.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better....

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better....

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may...

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may...