Thomas Carlyle

It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

Thomas Carlyle

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

Thomas Carlyle

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

Thomas Carlyle

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Thomas Carlyle

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

Thomas Carlyle

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

Thomas Carlyle

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

Thomas Carlyle

Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

Thomas Carlyle

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

Thomas Carlyle