--- title: "4 Interpretation Quotes By George Eliot" description: "4 Interpretation quotes by George Eliot. Plus more from George Eliot and more Interpretation sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc7/george-eliot-84_interpretation_all-meanings-we-know-depend-on-the-key-o_191874.png" --- > [All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/all-meanings-we-know-depend-on-the-key-of-interpretation/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc7/george-eliot-84_interpretation_all-meanings-we-know-depend-on-the-key-o_191874.png) > [It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/it-is-as-useless-to-fight-against-the-interpretations-of-ignorance-as/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d17/george-eliot-84_fighting_it-is-as-useless-to-fight-against-the-in_1436094.png) > [Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/signs-are-small-measurable-things-but-interpretations-are-illimitable/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efa/george-eliot-84_belief_signs-are-small-measurable-things-but-in_2031559.jpg) > [It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/it-is-a-fact-capable-of-amiable-interpretation-that-ladies-are-not/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/696/george-eliot-84_acquaintance_it-is-a-fact-capable-of-amiable-interpre_2688611.png) ## Other authors on Interpretation - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-susan-sontag-88140.jpg) Susan Sontag 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/interpretation/susan-sontag/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/interpretation/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-umberto-eco-92726.jpg) Umberto Eco 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/interpretation/umberto-eco/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/interpretation/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-marshall-b-rosenberg-64571.jpg) Marshall B. Rosenberg 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/interpretation/marshall-b-rosenberg/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/interpretation/mahatma-gandhi/) ## More by George Eliot > [There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/there-are-various-orders-of-beauty-causing-men-to-make-fools-of/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/but-the-effect-of-her-being-on-those-around-her-was-incalculably/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/scepticismcan-never-be-thoroughly-applied-else-life-would-come-to-a/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/under-every-guilty-secret-there-is-hidden-a-brood-of-guilty-wishes/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/the-most-powerful-movement-of-feeling-with-a-liturgy-is-the-prayer/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [ “\[W\]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/w-e-must-learn-to-accommodate-ourselves-to-the-discovery-that-some-of/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/mr-casaubon-had-never-had-a-strong-bodily-frame-and-his-soul-was/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/she-took-her-husband-s-jokes-and-joviality-as-patiently-as-everything/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/what-is-opportunity-to-the-man-who-can-t-use-it-an-unfecundated-egg/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/and-of-course-men-know-best-about-everything-except-what-women-know/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/but-let-the-wise-be-warned-against-too-great-readiness-at-explanation/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/but-any-one-watching-keenly-the-stealthy-convergence-of-human-lots/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/perspective-as-its-inventor-remarked-is-a-beautiful-thing-what/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/sane-people-did-what-their-neighbours-did-so-that-if-any-lunatics/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) > [even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/even-those-who-call-themselves-intimate-know-very-little-about-each/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/interpretation/george-eliot/#itemlist", "name": "4 Interpretation Quotes By George Eliot", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Eliot" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/all-meanings-we-know-depend-on-the-key-of-interpretation/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc7/george-eliot-84_interpretation_all-meanings-we-know-depend-on-the-key-o_191874.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc7/george-eliot-84_interpretation_all-meanings-we-know-depend-on-the-key-o_191874.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc7/george-eliot-84_interpretation_all-meanings-we-know-depend-on-the-key-o_191874.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.” — George Eliot", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Eliot" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/it-is-as-useless-to-fight-against-the-interpretations-of-ignorance-as/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d17/george-eliot-84_fighting_it-is-as-useless-to-fight-against-the-in_1436094.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d17/george-eliot-84_fighting_it-is-as-useless-to-fight-against-the-in_1436094.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d17/george-eliot-84_fighting_it-is-as-useless-to-fight-against-the-in_1436094.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.” — George Eliot", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge…wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. 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