Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Vision, Eternity

• Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Vision, Looks

• Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  "Signs of the Times". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, www.victorianweb.org. 1829.

• No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Character, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1839). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.2

• No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Vision, Noses

• I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Eye, Men

• The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Knowledge, Eye, Power

• To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Wisest Man, Squares

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.302, CUP Archive

• The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Practice, Mind

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.190

• Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Names, Swim

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.159

• It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Vision, Depth

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.247

• Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Heart, Order

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.50

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