Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
THOMAS CARLYLETeach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
-
-
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
No pressure, no diamonds.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Endurance is patience concentrated.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
See deep enough, and you see musically.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
THOMAS CARLYLE -
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE