George Eliot Quotes - Page 2

• What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

  George Eliot

  Fate, Self, Deception

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• Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Giving, Range

  Daniel Deronda II xiii (p. 100)

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• The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sympathy

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• All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

  George Eliot

  Keys, Mystery, Wonder

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume I EasyRead Edition”, p.82, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

  George Eliot

  Littles, Appearance

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.253

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• A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, Common, Hours

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.194, Oxford Paperbacks

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• There are many victories worse than a defeat.

  George Eliot

  Sports, Winning, Fearless

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.261

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• College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

  George Eliot

  Education, College, People

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.143, London

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• Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

  George Eliot

  People, Blameless

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.110, Xist Publishing

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• No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Men, Empty

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.71

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• Even success needs its consolations.

  George Eliot

  Needs, Consolation

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.648

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• Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

  The Impressions of Theophrastus Such "A Man Surprised at His Own Originality" (1879)

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• Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3734, Delphi Classics

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• We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

  George Eliot

  Believe, World, Belief

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.139

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• No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Trust, Character

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

  George Eliot

  Success, Sports, New Year

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• It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

  George Eliot

  Forgiveness, Too Much, Judgment

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.704, Wordsworth Editions

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  My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

  George Eliot

  Compassion, Joy, Suffering

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.237, 谷月社

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• Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

  George Eliot

  Death, Dying, Literature

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

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• The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Responsibility, Tolerance

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1282, Wordsworth Editions

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• We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

  George Eliot

  People, Want, Feels

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.202, 谷月社

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• All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Outlets

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.180

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• I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Dislike

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.345, George Eliot

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• Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

  George Eliot

  Fighting, Winning, Coward

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.27

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