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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to

Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."

Thomas Carlyle
Ignorance, Knowledge, Science
English and Other Critical Essays Chartism, Chapter II

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Thomas Carlyle
Ignorance, Knowledge, Men
Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.140

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

Thomas Carlyle
Life, Knowledge, Love Is
Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.123

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

Thomas Carlyle
Knowledge, Ratios, Increase

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Thomas Carlyle
Knowledge, Eye, Power

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Thomas Carlyle
Knowledge, Mean, Eye
Thomas Carlyle, Marianna De_Marinis (1851). “The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle: The bastille”, p.8

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'

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