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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Scottish - Philosopher | December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Good Best Men Clever

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

Source Faults Summary Egotism

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Eyes Weak Objects Glittering

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Nature Music Heart Deep Enough Look

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Truth Speak Truth Is Creation Kind

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

People Me Talk Always Little Tires

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

Silence Learn Speech Dead Human

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Obedience Him Woe Refuses Claims

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

Winter Long Summer April Wet May

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

True University Days Books

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

You Duty Will Become Lies Second

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Good Others Rights High Own Only

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