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The quotations of

Thomas Carlyle

Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher

1795–1881

43 quotes, most often on Character, Reading and Knowledge.

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Bk. III, ch. 4.
- Education
- Knowledge
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
- Knowledge
- Love
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Article on Biography.
- Knowledge
- Love
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Carlyle, Essays, On History. Quote reported in Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
- Experience
- Knowledge

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