Tag: Thomas Carlyle
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Thomas Carlyle
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Thomas Carlyle
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Thomas Carlyle
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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History, a distillation of rumour.
Thomas Carlyle
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The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle