Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise. and knowledgeable people are sad, they are bound to be sad because all their knowledge is borrowed. There can be no song in it.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the barroom and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may meanI myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both.

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It was hardly surprising to find philosophers using the symbolism of their time to interpret knowledge that came from a mysterious source.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.