Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Carlyle — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.”

“If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.”

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.”

“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.”

“By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.”

“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

“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.”

“Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.”