Silence is more eloquent than words | Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
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“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.”
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be
sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”
“The tragedy of life is not so much what
men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
“Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. ”
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances
allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.”
“Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.”
“A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.”
“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are”
“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”
“Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.”
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ”
“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.”
“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
“The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.”
“The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief”
“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.”
“Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.”
“A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.”
“Silence is more eloquent than words.”
Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
