Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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

#Ignorance

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

#Judgement

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

#Business

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

#Fashion

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men,...

#Health

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind...

#Problems

Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we...

#Life, #Questioning

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

#Love, #Romance

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

#Music

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

#Music

All great peoples are conservative.

#Conservative

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

#Thomas Carlyle