Knows Quotes by George Eliot

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

— George Eliot

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

— George Eliot

“Who knows that about anybody?”

— George Eliot

Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.

— George Eliot

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

— George Eliot

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

— George Eliot

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

— George Eliot

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more…

— George Eliot

“Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.”

— George Eliot

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

— George Eliot

But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.

— George Eliot

I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts…

— George Eliot

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it…

— George Eliot

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they…

— George Eliot

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young…

— George Eliot

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is…

— George Eliot

But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves…

— George Eliot

Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and…

— George Eliot

I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of…

— George Eliot

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were…

— George Eliot

...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise…

— George Eliot

... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy…

— George Eliot

Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to…

— George Eliot

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for…

— George Eliot

There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have…

— George Eliot

I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out…

— George Eliot

the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed…

— George Eliot

Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest…

— George Eliot

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

— George Eliot

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

— George Eliot

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of…

— George Eliot

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

— George Eliot

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

— George Eliot

“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.”

— George Eliot

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt,…

— George Eliot

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

— George Eliot

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose…

— George Eliot

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-…

— George Eliot

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need…

— George Eliot

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's…

— George Eliot