Thomas Carlyle on History
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Thomas Carlyle, catalogued under history, with dates where available.
This page displays 6 quotations attributed to Thomas Carlyle and filed under "history" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Thomas Carlyle, entry #71556: "The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion."
Attributed to Thomas Carlyle, entry #7484: "Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!"
6 Quotes by Thomas Carlyle on History
"The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion."
"Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!"
"History is the essence of innumerable biographies."
"Literary men are...a perpetual priesthood."
":History: a distillation of rumor."
"If we read History with any degree of thoughtfulness, we shall find that checks and balances of Profit and Loss have never been the grand agents with men, that they have never been roused into deep, thorough, all-pervading efforts by any computable prospect of Profit and Loss, for any visible, finite object; but always for some invisible and infinite one."