Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Mistake, Learning

• A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Strength, Strong, Mistake

  Thomas Carlyle (1993). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.158, Univ of California Press

• It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Errors, Inquiry

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

• The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fear, Mistake, Passionate

• The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Imagine, Imagine That

• The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Gold, Coins

  Thomas Carlyle (1838). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh ; In Three Books ...”, p.129

• Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Fall, Men

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