black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
Every noble work is at first impossible.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Impossible Noble One Liner Work
There are remedies for all things but death.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Cure Death One Liner
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Appearance Love Soul Unity
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Accomplishment Achievement Desire Development Man Power Stop
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Believe Errors Himself Man Mistake Truth Unity Way
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Deep Freedom Man World
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Believe Himself Man Original Sincere
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Age Old Ourselves Sorrow Work
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Future Sleep Time Travel Way
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Life Oneself Rare Writing
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

Himself Kind Man Problem Universe Work
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
THOMAS CARLYLE

Believe Force God Grace Himself Judgement Kind Soul
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Business Distance Doubt Hands Lying See

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Thomas Carlyle Quotes