Thomas Carlyle quotes - Page : 6

" We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer. " # Present # Character # Knowledge

" Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. " # Persuasion # Faith # Speakers and Speaking

" The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self. " # Belief # Fear # Doubt

" Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope. " # Change # Love # Memory

" A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men. " # Poetry and Poets # Heart # Friends and Friendship

" 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. " # Motivation

" Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. " # Reality # Books - Reading # Fiction

" By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears. " # Change # Hatred # Love

" Of America it would ill beseem any Englishman, and me perhaps as little as another, to speak unkindly, to speak unpatriotically, if any of us even felt so. Sure enough, America is a great, and in many respects a blessed and hopeful phenomenon. Sure enough, these hardy millions of Anglosaxon men prove themselves worthy of their genealogy. But as to a Model Republic, or a model anything, the wise among themselves know too well that there is nothing to be said. Their Constitution, such as it may be, was made here, not there. Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. " # Uncategorised # America # Bragging

" The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever. " # Age and Aging # Present # Life and Living