"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
Topic(s):
Good
More From Thomas Carlyle
- "Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious."
- "Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."
- "True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper."
More In Good
- "I’m kind of a good girl – and I’m not. I’m a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I’m a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That’s what the stories in my music do."― Katy Perry
- "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."― Albert Einstein
- "As a real person, he wouldn’t last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we’ve moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House’s friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don’t always like morally good people, do we?"― Hugh Laurie