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 ELIOTLife is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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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.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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