More - Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Thomas Carlyle

 Honor Scottish Philosopher

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity

Thomas Carlyle

 

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Thomas Carlyle

 Darkness Scottish Philosopher

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only

Thomas Carlyle

 

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad

Thomas Carlyle

 Judgment

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

 Books And Reading Scottish Philosopher

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Thomas Carlyle

 Hard Work Scottish Philosopher

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

 Eternity

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Thomas Carlyle

 Reform

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned

Thomas Carlyle