I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

— Thomas Carlyle

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 him.

— Thomas Carlyle

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.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

If you can walk you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

— Thomas Carlyle

If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.

— Thomas Carlyle

I grow daily to honor facts more and more and theory less and less.

— Thomas Carlyle

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

— Thomas Carlyle

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

— Thomas Carlyle

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.

— Thomas Carlyle