I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. — Quoted

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“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

Thomas Carlyle · Wisdom

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Thomas Carlyle

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

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Thomas Carlyle

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.

Teacher

Thomas Carlyle

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Death

Thomas Carlyle

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Beauty