No person is important enough to make me angry.
THOMAS CARLYLE
History: A distillation of rumor.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
-
No person is important enough to make me angry.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
-
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
THOMAS CARLYLE -
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
THOMAS CARLYLE