Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education. Thomas Carlyle More Quotes by Thomas Carlyle More Quotes From Thomas Carlyle A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him". Thomas Carlyle ignorance use men A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. Thomas Carlyle math witty science No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. Thomas Carlyle victory shows doe The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers. Thomas Carlyle mystical brother men Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men. Thomas Carlyle feelings heart men I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country. Thomas Carlyle eye men country No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses. Thomas Carlyle vision noses men Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind. Thomas Carlyle worship hero forever Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods. Thomas Carlyle python heart america The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them. Thomas Carlyle wicked alive evil Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. Thomas Carlyle wickedness self evil Reform, like charity, must begin at home. Thomas Carlyle reform charity home Nature admits no lie. Thomas Carlyle nature lying Society is founded on hero-worship. Thomas Carlyle hero-worship worship hero It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being. Thomas Carlyle symbols men It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments. Thomas Carlyle attainment defeat basketball By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears. Thomas Carlyle hate nature change I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people. Thomas Carlyle stupid clever men Creation is great, and cannot be understood. Thomas Carlyle understood creation Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor. Thomas Carlyle rich wealth distance
