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8435 quotesIsolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Loneliness
Thomas Carlyle
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Politicians and Politics
Thomas Carlyle
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Love
Thomas Carlyle
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Tools
Thomas Carlyle
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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
Romance and Romanticism
Thomas Carlyle
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Greatness
Thomas Carlyle
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Laughter
Thomas Carlyle
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
Music
Thomas Carlyle
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Certainty
Thomas Carlyle
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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
Present
Thomas Carlyle
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
Individuality
Thomas Carlyle
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Advice
Thomas Carlyle
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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Books - Reading
Thomas Carlyle
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Courage
Thomas Carlyle
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
Despair
Thomas Carlyle
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Fear
Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Faults
Thomas Carlyle
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
History and Historians
Thomas Carlyle
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Age and Aging
Thomas Carlyle
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
Past
Thomas Carlyle
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Invention and Inventor
Thomas Carlyle
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
Soul
Thomas Carlyle
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
Action
Andrew Carnegie
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Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Concentration
Andrew Carnegie
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun