Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish philosopher, writer, and historian.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

- Thomas Carlyle

Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

- Thomas Carlyle

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

- Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

- Thomas Carlyle

Every noble work is at first impossible.

- Thomas Carlyle

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

- Thomas Carlyle

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

- Thomas Carlyle

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

- Thomas Carlyle

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

- Thomas Carlyle

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

- Thomas Carlyle

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

- Thomas Carlyle