Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Faith, Believe

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.161

• A man lives by believing something.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Belief

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.315

• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Believe, Iron

• It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Errors, Inquiry

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

• 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?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Knowledge, Experience

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'On History'

• Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Belief, Excellent, Conviction

• The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

  Thomas Carlyle

  Battle, Belief, Ends

• We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Thinking, May

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.158

• They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Buddhism, Men, Errors

  "The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology". "On Heroes" by Thomas Carlyle, Chapter 1, ebooks.adelaide.edu.au. 1840.

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