Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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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...

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast...

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast...

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

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

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

Manners are stronger than laws

Manners are stronger than laws

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

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

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

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of...

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of...

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults...

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults...

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a...

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to...

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to...

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long...

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long...

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are...

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are...

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel...

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel...