“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”
More from Thomas Carlyle on Wisdom
“My books are friends that never fai”
“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.”
“There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.”
“The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
“Debt is a bottomless sea.”
“Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy.”
“I grow daily to honor facts more and more and theory less and less.”
“The greatest of faults I should say is to be conscious of none.”
“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”
“Without kindness there can be no true joy.”
Others on Wisdom
Sun Tzu
30 quotes“Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.”
Dalai Lama
22 quotes“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”
Cervantes
20 quotes“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
Aesop
19 quotes“Little by little does the trick.”
Confucius
19 quotes“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.”
Ben Franklin
18 quotes“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
Napoleon
16 quotes“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
Cicero
15 quotes“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
George Washington
14 quotes“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.”
Rudyard Kipling
14 quotes“I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know) Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and...”
Khalil Gibran
14 quotes“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
George R.R. Martin
14 quotes“This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.”