To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTThe responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
More George Eliot Quotes
-
-
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
GEORGE ELIOT -
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOT -
After all, the true seeing is within.
GEORGE ELIOT -
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
GEORGE ELIOT -
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
GEORGE ELIOT -
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
GEORGE ELIOT -
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOT -
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOT -
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOT -
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOT -
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
GEORGE ELIOT -
Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOT