there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
More George Eliot Quotes
-
-
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOT -
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOT -
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT -
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOT -
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
GEORGE ELIOT -
After all, the true seeing is within.
GEORGE ELIOT