Thomas Carlyle Quote Explained: Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.

Philosopher and historian

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The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

- Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher and historian

· Scotland

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Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

- Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher and historian

· Scotland

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He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

- Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher and historian

· Scotland

Poet

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All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

- Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher and historian

· Scotland

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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

- Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher and historian

· Scotland

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A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

- Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher and historian

· Scotland

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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

- Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher and historian

· Scotland

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

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

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

I think I’m innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.

Omniscience … is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

A belief in God and a belief in astrology cannot be reconciled.

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

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

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

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