George Eliot Quotes About Knowledge

• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

  George Eliot

  Sports, Ignorance, Knowledge

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, p.38

• To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Judging

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3078, Delphi Classics

• There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Depressing, Knowledge

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.137, Penguin

• What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Knowledge, Novelty

  "The Mill on the Floss". Easyread Comfort Edition,

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