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Thomas Carlyle Quotes about Silence

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Silence is more eloquent than words.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Silence, Eloquent, Silence Is

Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Silence, Gold, Speech

Thomas Carlyle (1897). “The Hero as Man of Letters”

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Time, Shallow Person, Silence

'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Time, Lying, Silence

'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Time, Silence, Speech

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.162, Univ of California Press

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.

Men, Silence, Acting

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.276, CUP Archive

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Fashion, Meditation, Silence

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Men, Silence, World

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.246, Lulu.com

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Fashion, Silence, Together

"Sartor Resartus" by Thomas Carlyle, Book III, (Ch. 3), 1833-1834.

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

Stars, Silence, Kingdoms

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

Silence, Speech, Silence Is

Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.175

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

Practice, Silence, Mind

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

Silence, Acting, Together

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.276, CUP Archive

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

Ocean, Greatness, Silence

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.15

Thought will not work except in silence.

Silence

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.174, Cambridge University Press

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Art, Silence, Speech

Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.20, CUP Archive

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

Silence, Spheres, Melody

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

Men, Silence, Duty

Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.79

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