Thomas Carlyle Great Quotes

View some of the most famous Great quotes by Thomas Carlyle; Click on the quote page to view more details about the quote.

Thomas Carlyle quotes on other topics

Great quotes by other authors

We have hundreds of other famous Great quotes by various authors. A list of those authors is as follows;

Abdul Kalam Abraham Lincoln View all

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What did Thomas Carlyle say about Great?

Thomas Carlyle has written many quotes about Great. E.g.,

  • I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
  • The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
  • I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

What are the top most famous Great quotes by Thomas Carlyle?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Great by Thomas Carlyle.

  • I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
  • The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
  • I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
  • The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
  • No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
  • Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
  • I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
  • The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
  • All great peoples are conservative.
  • There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.