Quotes about Thomas Carlyle

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it,...

#Thomas Carlyle

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

#Thomas Carlyle

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

#Thomas Carlyle

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

#Thomas Carlyle

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

#Thomas Carlyle

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament...

#Thomas Carlyle

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became...

#Thomas Carlyle

Teach a parrot the terms supply and demand and you've got an economist.

#Thomas Carlyle

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

#Thomas Carlyle

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

#Thomas Carlyle

Silence is more eloquent than words.

#Thomas Carlyle

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

#Thomas Carlyle