Quote by Thomas Carlyle
History is the distillation of rumor. - Thomas Carlyle

History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. – Thomas Carlyle

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If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. – Thomas Carlyle

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History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. – Fustel de Coulange, La Cité antique, 1864

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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. – Rebecca West

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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. – David Hume

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No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time. – Earl R. Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities

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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. – Henry David Thoreau

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Its so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didnt have any money, and my only car was moms Hyundai. – Criss Angel

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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. – William R. Alger

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Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever — but would rather not. – Author Unknown

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