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

If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music. – Thomas Carlyle

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Music
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. – Thomas Carlyle

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Men
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. – Thomas Carlyle

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teacher
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History
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Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. – Conrad Black

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History

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors. – Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations

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History

We dont want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinkers dam is the history we make today. – Henry Ford

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History

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it. – Hans-Georg Gadamer

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History

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